Wrexham City

[bigjoe]

"Applicants had to show their cultural heritage and royal links."

[Des Parrot]

Re: Wrexham City

Not Wrexham Athletic then!

also a shoutout for Douglas City, a modicum of pride in this announcement.

[goats]

Re: Wrexham City

Didn’t realise it was so small, has the place only got a population of 70,000?

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Re: Wrexham City

Is Wrexham a nice place to visit?

[Ivortheengine]

Re: Wrexham City

It’s a dump. But plenty to do not far from there.

[Rjk]

Re: Wrexham City

"Applicants had to show their cultural heritage and royal links."

birthplace of Owain Glyndwr

[Trigger]

Re: Wrexham City

Just seems pointless. Do the Wrexham residents really want this or is it more about MPS, councils etc pushing for things.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Wrexham City

The town v city nomenclature must be confusing for people who live in countries where no such differential exists linguistically.

By the way, although it will come as no surprise that the word 'city' comes from Latin the etymology of the word 'town' has come to us via an interesting route (for me anyway!):

The German word 'Zaun' meant a fence that encircled a homestead.
As in many cases, the 'Z' changed to 'T' and a vowel change occured so that the word became 'tuin' (best imagine the pronuciation as being spoken by a Newportonian) in Dutch. However, 'tuin' was used for the cultivated area within the fence and now means 'garden'.
In Old English 'tuin' became 'tūn' which represented the settlement itself and, in turn, became 'ton' or 'town'.
Taunton = Tonetown i.e. town on the river Tone.

Just sayin' :-)

[Rjk]

Re: Wrexham City

they really are scraping the barrel now there can't be anywhere else left that is a potential city.

[bigjoe]

Re: Wrexham City

birthplace of Owain Glyndwr

Don't think so. Owen Money? Michael Owen?

[the other bob wilson]

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It’s a dump. But plenty to do not far from there.

Nice place, or at leat the parts I saw were, not as nice as their rivals Chester though.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Wrexham City

they really are scraping the barrel now there can't be anywhere else left that is a potential city.

Merthyr

[dandywarhol]

Re: Wrexham City

It's a welcoming place. They start talking in Welsh when you walk in a pub. OK it's the language of Wales I know but the gogs do it on purpose.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Wrexham City

Top place

20000 going to London for fa trophy on Sunday

Good lads , there when it mattered

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Wrexham City

Didn’t realise it was so small, has the place only got a population of 70,000?

The Wrexham urban area is 136000