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Locals refer to Chios town as " Chora " (" Χώρα " literally means land or country, but usually refers to the capital or a settlement at the highest point of a Greek island ).
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Locals and regular visitors still refer to it by its old name, which can lead to confusion when purchasing a ticket in other parts of the country, and can result in being sold a ticket to Wrexham, North Wales.
Locals refer to Rowland Heights as " Little Taipei ", due to its high concentration of Taiwanese restaurants and businesses.
Locals tend to refer to the town as " Liberty Borough " or " Liberty Boro ," rather than just as " Liberty.
Locals refer to the small area of housing south of Culver Boulevard and closest to the beach as The Jungle, a nickname given to a group of closely built apartments built in 1956, within the bounding streets Trolley Place and Trolleyway Street on its east and west respectively, and including the streets
Locals often refer to it as bulletwood for its extremely hard wood, which is so dense that it does not float in water.
Locals at the nearby public house in the early 1990s used to refer to the White Horse Stone as " The Ingá stone ".
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Locals in Dalton pronounce their town like " Dal '- ton " with the first syllable pronounced like the first syllable in " Dal-las ", not " DOLL-ton ".
Locals also gather at the Wattle Glen Cricket Club, where they can sample an ale or eat hot dogs while watching the town heroes perform against other teams.
Locals felt the name " Humbug " was too undignified and renamed the town " Bloomfield ", but California already had a town by this name so they renamed the town " North Bloomfield ".
Locals called the town " Little Baguio of Laguna " because of its high elevation and cooler climate like the City of Baguio.
Locals in the town of Nafplion will say there are 999 steps to the top of the castle, and specials can be found on menus that incorporate this number to catch a tourist's eye.
Locals will have their favorite restaurant with the best Francesinha in town, typically arguing about the quality of the sauce ( a secret recipe that varies by restaurant ) and the quality of the meats.
Locals usually have to drive to the nearby towns of Magog or Sherbrooke to find big-city amenities, although there are smaller stores and cafés in the town which are open year round.
Locals celebrate the patron saint, Santa Ana, on July 26, during which the town puts forth a traditional representation of " Moros y Cristianos " ( Moors and Christians ), which commemorates the Reconquista expulsion of the Moors from Spain.
Locals were in an uproar for a time, spurred on by newspaper editorials taking the incident as an insult to a small town in rural Iowa.
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