<html><head></head><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font size=2 color="#000000" face="Arial">"SinCee" for Cincinnati<br>"Chi-town" for Chicago<br>"Sacra-tomato" for Sacramento<br>"Coneect-ti-cut" for Connecticut<br>"Charlo" for Charlotte<br>Susan Gilbert<br><br>----------<br>> From: Dennis R. Preston <<font color="#0000FF"><u>preston@PILOT.MSU.EDU</u><font color="#000000">><br>> To: <font color="#0000FF"><u>ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU</u><font color="#000000"><br>> Subject: Re: City Names<br>> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 8:00 PM<br>> <br>> What city don't have a clipped name? All the ones I've lived/worked in do:<br>> <br>> New Albany - Nawbnee<br>> Columbus - Clumps<br>> Oswego - Swiga<br>> Ann Arbor - Narber<br>> Indianapolis - Nnnaplus (4 morae, no shit!)<br>> East Lansing - Slansing<br>> etc...<br>> <br>> dInIs<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> >This may have been discussed on our list or on the ANS list...but...has<br>> >anyone compiled a list of cities that have "clipped" names in local usage?<br>> >1. Flagstaff=Flag<br>> >2. Rapid City=Rapid<br>> >3. Vancouver=Van<br>> >etc.<br>> <br>> <br>> Dennis R. Preston<br>> Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>> Michigan State University<br>> East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA<br>> <font color="#0000FF"><u>preston@pilot.msu.edu</u><font color="#000000"><br>> Office: (517)353-0740<br>> Fax: (517)432-2736</p>
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