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Oh, SmAlbany!

Daily posts and occasional longer essays about politics, culture, and life in the Capital Region...updated M-F, midmorning


"I write this not as a booster of Albany, which I am, nor an apologist for the city, which I sometimes am, but rather as a person whose imagination has become fused with a single place, and in that place finds all the elements that a man ever needs..." -W. Kennedy, from O Albany!

Defining Albany

What's the definition of Albany?: Well, that's the question that I looked up this morning on Wikipeida, the online encyclopedia that is open source so that anyone can edit it. Here's the entry for Albany. Not bad - you get history, geography, demographics, some nice facts. A decent entry.

However, an important tidbit appears in the second paragraph, much to my surprise:
Nicknames include Cap City, which is a more recent term, and SmAlbany, which is used to put the city down.
Whoa. And note that they use the far less popular, though in my opinion better, capital S-lowercase m-capital A-one l spelling.

The Cap City? I guess.

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