shortened names/nicknames for your cities?

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Does anyone have shorter names or nicknames for the city they live in? For example, I live in Mississauga, but most people just call it 'Sauga because it's easier to say...even though it's just 2 syllables (sp?) shorter. Just about everything within a 45 minute drive of Toronto is labelled as a part of the GTA (greater toronto area). This is like a total of 5 or 6 smaller cities with populations of a few hundered thousand each I think.

I also know a bunch of people who call Toronto T-dot for whatever the hell reason. Houston was known to many as simply H-town back when I lived there (more than 5 years ago). Personally, I find names like T-dot to be annoying because they don't represent the original name of the city in any way.

There's also Scarborough which a lot of people jokingly call Scarlem due to all the crime in that part of the GTA.

How about where you live? Anybody do the same? Are there any annoying names? How about humorous?
 
Emad,

Choclair started that T. thing.....crazy Canadian rapper.....

In St.Catharines We call it St.Kitts ( after Jamaican city ) due to the high population of Jamaicans that work in the Vineyards....( niagara is wine country )
 
Birchgrove is sometimes called 'bgrove'.
But you can't really abbreviate Swansea. Unless you want to call it 'date rape capital.' But that doesn't exactly bring in the tourists.
 
I live in Mississauga too, and I hate that stupid T-dot thing, especially when people who live here in the 'burbs say they're going down to the T-dot, I want to take my fist and ram it into their stomach and rip out their godd*mn spine! (Extra points for those of you who know where that quote's from!)
 
What the hell does Thornhill shorten to? Absolutely nothing...

:lol: @ Scarlem, haven't heard that one before!
 
Well, the next best thing to a city for me nearby is East Brunswick, and my friend calls it 'East Gunswick'... err, one letter shorter.
 
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Well I think everyone can guess mine. I live in Kissimmee, and all the tourists think its funny to say Kiss-a-me. This joke gets very old after living there all your life. Kow-town was popular for a long time. Even one of the orignal high school mascot is the Kowboy. But the cows are moving over to the fastest growing area in the state. So most of the young folk call it K-town, but as this thread proves, that isn't very oringal.
 
Miami somehow became "The Magic City". Even though the Magic Kingdom is about 200 miles north.

Coral Springs: Us wacky teens of the 80's called it Oral Springs due to a large city sign that was missing the "C" for many years.

Gainesville: Brick City, The Swamp, Gator City, Gator Land...too many names for a city that really doesn't have much of an identity outside the state.

Orlando: doens't Miata13B and Magic069 call it Tourist Hellhole? If you're ever stuck in traffic there, you would also agree.

Davie: "The southernmost redneck city in the USA." Well, that's what us suburbanites call it.

Key West: The Conch Republic. (Conch tastes funny, by the way...should be branded as "inedible" by the FDA.)

New Orleans: "The Crescent City" ...didn't understand that one until I went there. It's the shape of the city with respect to the winding Mississippi River.
 
San Antonio Heights, Southern California = "The Heights", SoCal.

OK, so there is no true "Southern" California, but we SoCalers like to think so.
 
Calgary, somewhere along the line, has become known as "Cowtown". I have yet to see a cow in the city limits.

But I did see a coyote this afternoon prowling around a field near Mount Royal College...
 
My hometown is actually Marlborough, MA, but everyone spells it like the ciggarettes, Marlboro.

It is often called ****-hole by its residents.
 
Jacksonville, Florida gets called Jville a lot. I've also heard Orlando called O-Town. I can agree on the Tourist Hellhole though. Traffic blows! :yuck: :scared:
 
For some odd, reason they sometimes call my place G-Town,I mean whats up with that?:odd:
 
Boston is Beantown. I call Quincy Q-City because I have no creativity. Morons like to call Germantown G-Town, and even bigger morons like to call Hough's Neck The (Da) Neck. I hate these people.

There's a Duxbury, MA a few miles south of where I live. I like to call it Deluxebury.

The rule for nicknames usually involves taking the first letter of the city and slapping on -Town or -City. It's a clever system.

All of these cities I've named are located in Easter Massachusetts, if you wanted to know.
 
If you see me type "STL", I mean St. Louis. MO means Missouri(duh), and sometimes I might say C.C. which is Creve Coeur, a community right down the street here. That's bout it.
 
Nobody cares enough about my town to give it a nickname. The only nickname I've ever heard for it is Boringville (The actual name is Burrillville). Some towns near me have nicknames though (sort of). Worcester is usually pronounced as Woosta, Woonsocket is usually pronounced Onesocket, and I've heard people call Providence "P-town." There's also this area near where I work that's called Onyville, but people call it Lonelyville, for whatever reason.




-Mark
 
Dunedin is commonly known as 'dunnas' by mostly younger people.
And Mosgiel is known as 'Mollywood', amongst others.

Look at the picture below to see why. :D
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Antwerp (which is in our language Antwerpen (that language being Dutch)), is shorted into A'pen, but we don't say it, we just type that. We usually just call it 't stad which translates into thè city.

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I'm from Lake Orion (Orion is pronounced Oreeon) Michigan...we get called LO Town, LO villa, and Lake Orion (like the constilation name)
 

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