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

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.
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>*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