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Originally Posted by onslowe
This is bad. I do it an awful lot and my wife used it the other day in Ocala.
"The City." We Noo Yawkers are a wee bit parochial I guess! Everyone else in this great country must live in villages, or hamlets, or towns to listen to us. If you hear it (and the accent hasn't given us away) you can be sure it's NYC.
I went to a NYS student council convention in 1964 at the beautful University of Rochester. One of the kids from NYC asked a security guard where she could get a plane to 'the city.' Since we were just outside Rochester, he looked at her like she was nuts!  |
This one is such a truism. As a native we always went either into "the city" or "out the island" if we were heading to Suffolk.