Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)

Roger Mills wrote:

>When I visited San Francisco a long time ago-- stayed with relatives in one
>of the suburbs-- they and neighbors consistently referred to "The City".
>Similarly in NYC, tho "The City" means Manhattan, nowhere else.  In my
>admittedly sketchy contacts, I don't recall any others referring to their
>metropolis as "The City". Bostonians?? Chicagoans?? Philadelphians??
>Atlantans?? Angelenos?? Houstonians?? Minneapolitans?? I don't think so.
>
>
Well, in Melbourne, 'the city' refers to the CBD and the immediately
surrounding areas. (IIUC, therefore, 'the city' means something very
similar to 'downtown' in American usage.) This seems to be standard
throughout Australia. In fact, there is a suburb of Canberra (the
capital city of Australia) called 'City', which suggests that this usage
is old enough to have been around when the Canberra was being built
(1911ish). (The city can simultaneously refer to the entire
metropolitan/urban area, just the same as Melbourne can refer to the
CBD, the suburb of Melbourne, the City of Greater Melbourne or Melbourne
and its suburbs.)

--
Tristan.

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