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WCGreen

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4. Gotham is an old nickname for NYC...

Reply to The Philosopher (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 01:16 PM

Apr 2013

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006010403918

Gotham was first used in reference to New York City by Washington Irving in the satirical piece Salmagundi (1807). Gotham was at that point already known to refer to a place with "foolish inhabitants." Somehow the name stuck to NYC, even though it had originally been a nickname for Nottinghamshire (a village in England where, apparently, wise men acted as fools in order to avoid paying for the king's upkeep).

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