Its done pretty regularly on US TV. Particularly in sports shows, i.e. “Live from Manchester, England…”.
Sheesh. I knew my German had degraded to nearly nothing, but managing to mangle a never changing place name…:smack:
As an “aside” question, I will take it most people, living in Austria-Hungary would not identify themselves as Austro-Hungarian?
I still identify myself as Yugoslavian because my mother is from Croatia and my father is from Serbia, back then it was all Yugoslavia of course.
But my folks never called themselves Yugoslav.
So would I be correct to guess it was a similar thing in Austria-Hungary?
Manchester is hardly as prominent as London, in more ways than one.
As noted upthread, Austria and Hungary (and a few other places) under a common throne. More to the point, they were two separate entities – mainly German speaking in the west and mainly Magyar and Slavic in the east.
For a rough modern day analogy, think of China and Tibet. Tibet is for all intents and purposes a part of China, but the people don’t think of themselves as Tibetan-Chinese, they’re simply Tibetans.
Also, note the possible confusion with Manchester, New Hampshire, which is the largest city in that state, and perhaps more immediate to an American audience than its English namesake. I generally think of England when I hear Manchester, but this has caused me confusion in the past when folks were referring to the American Manchester, and I was thinking the English Manchester, and it wasn’t immediately obvious from context which was intended.
Austria-Hungary? Pffft! Hardly an empire – all they ever did was slowly collapse…