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City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
Prescott – Everybody's Home Town [14] Scottsdale – The West's Most Western Town [15] Sedona – Red Rock Country [16] Show Low – Named for the Turn of a Card [13] Sierra Vista – Hummingbird Capital of the United States [17] Tombstone – The Town Too Tough To Die [13] [18] [19] Tucson. The Old Pueblo; Dirty T. [13] [20] [21] Optics ...
Maybe it’s because it’s a long word. Maybe it’s just bound to happen in a college town. Regardless of the reason, many people in Bloomington refer to the city as “B-Town,” “Bloom ...
"City of a Thousand Trades" [23] – with reference to the city's former industrial might. "Venice of the North" – a name likening the city to Venice, Italy, in southern Europe, due to both having a large number of canals. [24] "Workshop of the world" [25] – also a reference to the city's industrial heritage.
Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
This partial list of city nicknames in New York compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities in the U.S. state of New York are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or the cities' tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
"Toronto the Good" from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by mayor William Holmes Howland [177] An 1898 book by C.S. Clark was titled Of Toronto the Good. A Social Study. [178] The Queen City of Canada As It Is. The book is a facsimile of an 1898 edition.