City Names

[Dennis R. Preston]

What city don't have a clipped name? All the ones I've lived/worked in do:

New Albany - Nawbnee
Columbus - Clumps
Oswego - Swiga
Ann Arbor - Narber
Indianapolis - Nnnaplus (4 morae, no shit!)
East Lansing - Slansing
etc...

dInIs



>This may have been discussed on our list or on the ANS list...but...has
>anyone compiled a list of cities that have "clipped" names in local usage?
>1.  Flagstaff=Flag
>2.  Rapid City=Rapid
>3.  Vancouver=Van
>etc.


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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