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

From:David Barrow <davidab@...>
Date:Thursday, June 17, 2004, 0:45
Roger Mills wrote:

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>My question whether other peoples referred to their principal city as "The >City" was simply to indicate that in my experience, that seems a rather rare >practice. Do Parisians routinely refer to La Ville? Romans to La Città? >Jakartans do not refer to Kotanya, Bonasairenses* do not refer to La Ciudad. >etc. etc. (Obviously too, The City for a Londoner refers to a specifically >defined area, not to the entire metro area. >-------------------- >*Unsure of the spelling; one would expect Bon_o_s....; but I've seen this in >print I think. It is probably somewhat hoity-toity, like Estadounidense-- >and shows up the difficulty of naming inhabitants of places with complicated >names. My old home town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has no descriptive >form *Sioux Fallsite, *Sioux Fallsan *etc. 90 miles down the river, >however, lived Sioux Citians. > >Would a resident of Gnaw Bone, Indiana, be a Bone Gnawer? > >
bonairenses. Though I think in Argentina they are known as porteños David Barrow