Re: CHAT Cities: Sidney

John Leland wrote:

>In a message dated 6/15/04 10:50:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>kesuari@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:
>
><< On the topic of all of this, people from Sydney are Sydney-siders (or
> Sydneysiders,  Sydney-Siders)  >>
>IIRC, members of a politically powerful gang from Sidney in 19th century San
>Francisco
>were called the Sidney Ducks, and my understanding was that this was
>used more generically for all immigrants from Sidney.
>
>
>
If you're talking about the Australian city, it's spelt 'Sydney', with
two Ys and no Is.

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Tristan.