Play up Pompey

[barrywom]

Why is Portsmouth known as Pompey?

[Ginbottle]

The name of The Pompey pub that stands immediatey outside the main entrance to the club's ground in Frogmore Road.

[siggy]

It's older than that. It's naval slang for the city going back to at least the early 19th century. No-one quite knows the derivation, but it may just be a deliberate mispronunciation of the name which stuck.

[ssmart]

People from Hartlepool are known as 'monkeyhangers' from the tale that, during the Napoleonic Wars, a chimp was found on board a French ship and hanged by the citizens of Hartlepool, who thought it was a Frenchman.

[barrywom]

Cow Town = Calgary, Canada. Big Apple = New York. The Eternal City = Rome. The Athens of the North = Edinburgh. The Great Wen = London.

[sgs]

Biscuit Town was Reading's CB handle. The Smoke for London.