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HelpRe: A good nickname for Pretoria?
in reply to a message by Higuma Kanora
Ria could work.
For the city, the only nns in use, and I think they no longer are, were Petoorsburg and Snor City, neither of which would do but both of which definitely colour my thinking.
Petoors - puhTOOersburCH is just a sloppy pronunciation of Pretorius plus -burg = city.
Snor is Afrikaans for Moustache, from the days before democratisation when the Civil Service (Pretoria is the administrative capital) was staffed at senior levels almost entirely by white Afrikaans men with bristly whiskers!
For the city, the only nns in use, and I think they no longer are, were Petoorsburg and Snor City, neither of which would do but both of which definitely colour my thinking.
Petoors - puhTOOersburCH is just a sloppy pronunciation of Pretorius plus -burg = city.
Snor is Afrikaans for Moustache, from the days before democratisation when the Civil Service (Pretoria is the administrative capital) was staffed at senior levels almost entirely by white Afrikaans men with bristly whiskers!
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