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

Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:

> Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> > > "In the City" seems a rather odd origin for the name of a city.  The
> > > Konstaninopoulos theory seems better to me for that reason.
>
> I too have seen the _eis ten polis [istinpolis]_ explanation favored over
> "corruption" of Constantinopolis, but have my doubts.  For one thing, why
> should [i] change to [a]?
>
> 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.
In Swedish, it's normal to refer to the closest biggish city as _sta'n_, lit
"The City". For me, that's primarily Linköping, a city of 100k.

                                                         Andreas

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