I keep trying to tell people that no one in California calls it “Cali,” just like no one in New York refers to the city as as “The Big Apple.” However no one objects to when people call Paris the “City of Light,” although a rookie mistake is to call it the “City of Lights” (plural). One explanation of how it got that name was because Paris was one of th…
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