(Adj) City

[Wilson Gray]

Another example is Boston, MA, and Compton, CA, each of which styles
itself the "Hub City."

-Wilson

On 2/21/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:03 AM, i wrote:
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> > ... (i *think* the early uses of "Fat City" were for places: "Los
> > Angeles is Fat City", meaning it's a place of opportunity or
> > success, or the metaphorical "I'm in Fat City now" -- note the
> > preposition -- meaning i've achieved success...
>
> or, on the other hand, the N City, Adj City, and V City variants
> could all have been modeled directly on place names like River City,
> Prairie City, Gopher City, Elk City, etc.
>
> > then there are "V City" examples, like "suck city" ("Bullshit
> > Nights in Suck City", a genuine book title),
>
> well, actually, not.  the title is "Another Bullshit Night in Suck
> City".  oh, memory!
>
> arnold
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