Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > FYI, I live near Philadelphia, but everyone here calls it "Philly", and
> > there are even companies that use the name like "Philly Pretzel
> > Company", http://www.phillysoftpretzelfactory.com/pretzelstory.html. I
> > don't call it "Philly" when I am out of the country because few people
> > recognize it outside the USA. Anyway, to me it shows an alias can get
> > general usage without renaming the city, but I do think we should
> > promote the alias in a focused way.
>
> So, I took a look at the philadelphia government website, just to see how much
> the philadelphia "promotes" the use of the term philly, like you want to do
> with Postgres. Doing a quick search, I get the following results:
> Documents 1 to 5 of 14079 matching the query "philadelphia"
> Documents 1 to 5 of 772 matching the query "philly"
> If my math is right (and surely you can double check that for me) that's about
> 1% of the use of the term philly vs philadelphia. That doesn't seem like
> strong promotion.
Agreed. "Philly" was promoted by the community itself over a long time
period. There is much more talk about the city than what exists on the
web site, of course. Who says "Philadelphia cheese steak"?
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