• slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    162·
    3 days ago

    After a conversion about the origin of something in Australia my wife now think NSW, the state abriviation for New South Wales, is called NSW because of the 3 largest cities Newcastle, Sydney, and Wollongong

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      I knew about what it really stands for before your post, but without doing research I can’t tell how much of the rest is false: Is Wollongong a real city? Are the first two even in NSW? Etc.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        Yes, all 3 cities are real and in New South Wales. They are the most populated ones, well were at the time the joke started doing the rounds.