[WikiEN-l] City names argument resurrected

[Ray Saintonge]

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Perhaps it is more common among residents of Queens,
>Nassau and Suffolk to hear Manhattan referred to as "New
>York". On the LIRR, conductors making announcements in
>Jamaica, Queens use "New York" to mean Manhattan, as
>opposed to Brooklyn. I hear people in Queens and Long
>Island say "New York" as often as "the City" to indicate
>Manhattan, especially when talking about where they work
>or where they're going for an evening's entertainment.
>
>Context is everything.
>
Exactly, and this sort of situation is not limited to NYC.  I'm sure 
that there are other large cities where "going into town" simply means 
going to the city core of the same city.  Unlike NYC they may not have 
these clearly defined boroughs.  Of course, our context is a world 
context, and we can't expect our readers to understand these things in 
the same way as a New York City resident.

Rc