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

I don't question the "City" part of the story, I question the
preposition "in".  I could easily see "The City" becoming analyzed as a
name, but the incorporation of a preposition seems a bit far-fetched to
me.

Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
>
> 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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