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For an international audience, "The City" means London's financial district. This is the only use of the term sufficiently common to be mentioned on Wikipedia's
by thurn 13y ago
For an international audience, "The City" means London's financial district. This is the only use of the term sufficiently common to be mentioned on Wikipedia's article.
- allochthon 13y agoWikipedia aside, I respectfully disagree. Even for an international audience, context is important for interpreting "the city." NYT article: "the city" is New York. Economist article: "the city" is the City of London. TechCrunch: "the city" is San Francisco.
- nl 13y agoThere was a TV show called Sex and the City, and that referred to New York. I'd say either NY or London is fine for an international audience. SF, not so much - and I hate, hate, hate how that reference shows the promise of the internet as a world without locality has been lost and turned into California, with the rest of the world as an afterthought. (Australian here, for reference)
- chad_oliver 13y agoOf course, if you study a lot of medieval history, "The City" always means Constantinople (later Istanbul).
- ovi256 13y agoExcept that was not in English.
- lostlogin 13y agoAnyone interested in history or the bizarre would love the history of the City Of London Corporation. Business can vote, and their vote strength relates to employee numbers - that alone blew my mind when I learnt of it. Its well worth going down the rabbit hole if you have a spare bit of time. A good starting place for me was http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation