Re: Character name advice wanted.

Jacey Bedford wrote:
In message <1j6kfze.1xzan3819bs2xoN%green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Catja Pafort <green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
David Friedman wrote:

I note that Catja hasn't yet provided any support for her claim that
"Manchester" as the label for a school of thought is an American usage.

The proof for usage is-

Oh, my. I can't possibly think where one would get the idea that you can
infer anything about usage from, y'know, actual usage of a term. And it
appears to be a term that is used a lot by Americans and not so much on
this side of the pond. It's not that we aren't familiar with the
economists in question; they're just not as strongly associated with
Manchester.

Absolutely. When someone says Manchester I think: Coronation Street; industry/industrial wasteland; cotton weaving all-but-gone; Cheetham Hill Road cloth warehouses; multicultural; conurbation; M60; Moss Side no-go area; airport; Granada TV studios; be careful where you park your car; Ashton-under-Lyne; and maybe: university; Mancunian Way; Salford; River Irwell; BBC Oxford Road radio studios; bloody roadworks again; Royal Exchange Theatre and shopping. (Not necessarily in that order.)

I tend not to think 'upper class.'


While if I hear it, I think "is that somewhere in England?" and associate it with nothing else. I think there's a Manchester or three in the USA, but I don't know anything about them.


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