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Bad analogy. This would be like people calling Rhode Island "Newport". The official state name is (the State of) "Rhode Island" (and Providence Plantations),

Bad analogy. This would be like people calling Rhode Island "Newport". The official state name is (the State of) "Rhode Island" (and Providence Plantations), and calling it by the name of one of its territories makes no sense.

wolco 7y ago
Yet we all knew you meant Rhode Island by saying Newport.
- __s 7y ago
  I didn't
  - wolco 7y ago
    Let's try a few others. South Beach? LA? Vegas?
    - nl 7y ago
      Even people from Fremantle wouldn't expect to say "South Beach" and have people outside Perth know where that is.
DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
Tangential factoid: often people (especially tourists) say Newport when they actually mean Aquidneck Island. Source: I've lived in that area.