NY NY vs NYC

[Kenneth Setzer]

I also encounter this when referring to "the island," meaning of course Long
Island. I wonder how far out of New York one has to start specifying "Long"
Island.

David Bergdahl wrote:

> Greg Downing wrote--
> I was simply assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that everyone reading the
> post
> would clearly understand from my email address among other things that I
> was
> writing from NYC and that when I wrote "NY and CT" I was referring to my
>
> experience with speakers in and around the metro NYC area. Was that not
> clear to everyone? If not, sorry!
>
> -- This is a confusion NYers have trouble understanding, since we never
> have trouble from context disambiguating the city from the state, but
> others apparently do.  I, myself, refuse to use "New York City" for NY,
> NY since there is no such place :-) ... but I wonder how old NYC is as a
> term: I hear it more frequently now than I ever did (or I'm just getting
> more crotchetty)
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