NYC is one of a number of world cities known by acronyms or nicknames:
Rio For Rio de Janeiro
HK For Hong Kong
TJ For Tijuana
KL For Kuala Lumpur
TO For Toronto
Joburg For Johannesburg
There’s even a whole country that goes by its initials: UK.
So, stop thinking this is some American thing, it’s just a way that people shorten the names of common cities that have a few too many syllables to be convenient.
NYC is one of a number of world cities known by acronyms or nicknames:
There’s even a whole country that goes by its initials: UK.
So, stop thinking this is some American thing, it’s just a way that people shorten the names of common cities that have a few too many syllables to be convenient.