"Tagline Guru" survey has 'Big Apple" number one nickname

[Brenda Lester]

La-Land is in there (#10).
Where is Hot 'Lanta (Atlanta, GA)?




--- carole crompton <crompton at SOVER.NET> wrote:

> and what about my hometown, La La Land?
> On Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 07:16 AM,
> Laurence Horn wrote:
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society
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> > Poster:       Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: "Tagline Guru" survey has 'Big
> Apple" number one
> > nickname
> >
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> > At 9:00 AM -0400 9/21/05, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> >> The well-known moniker, "The Big Apple," was
> ranked #1 out of nearly
> >> 800 city
> >>  nicknames, followed by "Sin City" (Las Vegas);
> "The Big Easy" (New
> >> Orleans);
> >>  "Motor City" (Detroit); and "The Windy City"
> (Chicago).
> >>
> >> Highlighted  Links
> >> _Full Survey Results _
> >> (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/
> >> frame_multimedia?prid=95613&attachid=206417)
> >> _Award  Winners_
> >> (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/
> >> frame_multimedia?prid=95613&attachid=206414)
> >>
> >> Rankings were based on whether slogans and
> nicknames expressed a
> >> city's brand
> >>  character and personality; told a story in a
> clever, original, and
> >> memorable
> >>  way; and inspired others to visit there, move
> there, or learn more.
> >> For a list of the 50 top-ranked slogans and 50
> top-ranked nicknames,
> >> and the
> >> criteria and methodology used to select them, go
> to
> >> _www.taglineguru.com/citymottosmonikers.html_
> >>
> (http://www.taglineguru.com/citymottosmonikers.html)
> >
> > Hey, they left out New Haven, the Elm City.  Yes,
> all our elms died
> > off, but why should that be held against us?
> Granted, it's not as
> > poetic as Porkopolis or The Protestant Vatican,
> but...
> >
> > L
> >
>


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