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barrywom | 15:20 Wed 15th Aug 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why is Portsmouth known as Pompey?
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The name of The Pompey pub that stands immediatey outside the main entrance to the club's ground in Frogmore Road.
13:04 Sun 19th Aug 2001
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It's older than that. It's naval slang for the city going back to at least the early 19th century. No-one quite knows the derivation, but it may just be a deliberate mispronunciation of the name which stuck.
08:08 Sun 26th Aug 2001
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People from Hartlepool are known as 'monkeyhangers' from the tale that, during the Napoleonic Wars, a chimp was found on board a French ship and hanged by the citizens of Hartlepool, who thought it was a Frenchman.
10:47 Fri 31st Aug 2001
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Cow Town = Calgary, Canada. Big Apple = New York. The Eternal City = Rome. The Athens of the North = Edinburgh. The Great Wen = London.
11:00 Fri 31st Aug 2001
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Biscuit Town was Reading's CB handle. The Smoke for London.
11:02 Fri 31st Aug 2001

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