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

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 00:07, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)
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> Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
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> > Steg Belsky wrote:
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> > > > "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 Linkping, a city of 100k.
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>                                                          Andreas
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Here in Norway, we refer to the closest large city as _by'n_ or _byen_