it might be helpful to develop a this article is not list to allow the existence of a useful nicknames list and prevent scope creep not a list of mottos slogans and marketing tags nearly every city has one or more such nickname examples the big apple garlic capital not a list of humorous names nicknames listed here if once humorous are common enough to have lost their humorous effect not a comprehensive list of variants the one or two nicknames listed here for a given city are recognized city wide as the standard spoken shortcuts for the full city name