Shaelumstash
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This sums it up perfectly for me.It has always been the “official” nickname, if that isn’t an oxymoron but it seems to work the exact opposite way of most nicknames.
They usually come about purely through common usage and then get adopted as official.
With City it seems like we’ve always been told that’s our nickname for some reason but nobody actually ever uses it as such.
I honestly don’t think I have ever heard a single person shout…. Come on you Citizens.
I’ve been going regularly since I was about 6, from a big family of blues. The first time I heard the word “Citizens” in relation to City was on a pub quiz machine when I was about 19, and I thought the quiz machine was broke because I’d literally never heard of it before.
And “Cityzens” is a fucking abomination. Both as a name, and of the English language.