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In Washington State, the cities of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland are much more commonly referred to as The Tri-Cities. It doesn't matter if you are speaking of them collectively or not, anywhere within them is simply Tri-Cities, only naming the specific city if you want to be, well, specific.
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Albuquerque is often called Burque and ABQ.
Worcester, Mass still has it's given name how ever it's butchered by the Mass accent into "Wusstah". Also the neighboring state to the north in "N' Hampsha".
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I've never heard Albuquerque referred to as Burque, but I have heard it called Querque.
It's often reffered to as Burque (pronounced "Burrkaaay") and often with a roll on the letter R in depending on the how thick the accent is. Locals are often called Burqueños. There's a lot of Spanglish slang in New Mexico. Urban Dictionary: burque
Paradise, Nevada. Millions of people think they are going to Las Vegas,, but never step outside the limits of Paradise and enter the City of Las Vegas. Even the airport is in Paradise, as well as The Strip. Paradise has a population of 250,000.
Nobody in San Francisco ever calls it "Frisco" -- they hate that. But they do just call it "The City". St. John's Newfoundland, us just called "Town". Not "the town", just "Town". As in "Where does your brother live now?" "Town".
Dallas was known as "Big D" for a long time, but I think that is rarely heard these days. The name Los Angeles is rarely heard anywhere, everybody in the world knows it as LA.
Owing to confusion with a state with the same name, the term DC is very widely used instead of Washington.
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