CHAT Cities: Sidney
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 2004, 1:23 |
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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.
John Leland
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