Post #47043
2025-12-09 23:08 UTC
I can definitely see a Derry/Londonderry situation forming regarding the city’s name. I prefer the name Port Elizabeth though, I have a thing for feminine given names and linguistics. Oh, and that linguistics obsession of mine has granted me the ability to do the Gq-click. And I’m not even South African!
And my brain is still obsessed with trying to ask as many South Africans as possible about the city’s name so… thank you for the answer, haha
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@tourist@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 14:19
Fortunately, I don’t think there’s a fraction of that specific kind of tension. My guess is 40-50 years from now, people will probably just call it Gqeberha or some other more catchy nickname.