The final details, venue and sponsors, of the match for the World Chess Championship will be announced “in due course.” Agon’s statement of one week ago follows:
[b][i]While it is not the company’s policy to comment on tittle-tattle and gossip, we note the idle speculation that the city for the World Championship Match in November has yet to be finalised.
We are delighted to re-confirm that the World Championship Match will take place in New York in November. Any suggestion to the contrary is nonsense.
The venue and the sponsor line-up will be announced in due course.[/i] [/b]
I don’t think this is correct. I think they call it New York City much like people from Seattle call it Washington State. This is different from, say, Oklahoma, where the capital is Oklahoma City in Oklahoma county. Notice the capitalization.
Micah is correct. Other people may refer to Washington State. But you said “people from Seattle call it Washington State” which is definitely not true. I lived there for over 40 years, so you may take my word for it.
Agon is not a local to New York, and they are making a press statement so I doubt they would refer to New York City as New York. I’m from Oklahoma, we don’t call anything Oklahoma except when referring to the state. When talking about Oklahoma City we say, OKC or The City. When referring to Oklahoma County we say Oklahoma County.
As for the Washington debate, being stuck in the middle of the Country we have to just take cues from the context of the conversation as to which Washington is being talked about. But generally people say Washington for both, then clarify if needed as to Washington State or D.C.
My point was just that Agon is being vague in their press releases. Vagueness typically denotes 2 things, 1. uncertainty or 2. deception. I’d guess uncertainty at this point, but wouldn’t put deception past Agon.
Agon’s press person is presently Dylan McClain who is a former Manhattanite now living in Paris (France, not Texas). I don’t think he’s referring to Poughkeepsie…
There’s one in Louisiana, too. Festival Acadien is well worth the trip. Last time I was there I heard Beau Jocque not too long before he died too young as many Zydeco performers do. “What ya gonna gimme for for that piece a corn bread?”
I think it’s been established that New York can refer to either the city or the state. That part of the conversation is on topic to the OP. The rest is not.
According to placesnamed.com, besides the largest New York (city) in the State of New York, there are also:
New York, Florida, United States is in Santa Rosa County; location is 30°50’18"N 87°12’3"W;
New York, Iowa, United States is in Wayne County; location is 40°51’6"N 93°15’35"W;
New York, Kentucky, United States is in Ballard County; location is 36°59’20"N 88°57’9"W;
New York, New Mexico, United States is in Valencia County; location is 35°3’31"N 107°31’36"W
