Response To The Dispute
Organisations dealing with the city and county generally take regard of the controversy in deciding how to refer to them.
A suggested compromise dual naming of "Derry/Londonderry" (read "Derry stroke Londonderry") has given rise to the jocular nickname "Stroke City". Gerry Anderson, a local radio presenter who espoused this term, became known briefly as "Gerry/Londongerry". The city was made UK City of Culture for 2013; the organising committee's official logo reads "Derry~Londonderry", which was also the name of a boat it sponsored in the 2011–12 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Another locally used method of partly circumventing this name problem is to write "L'derry" or "L-Derry". Another suggested compromise involves referring to the City as "Derry" and the County as "Londonderry"; this is common among historians of early modern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Railways use the dual naming of "Derry/Londonderry" on the destination boards of any trains bound for the city, and use the truncated version of "L/Derry" on all railway tickets to Waterside station. Additionally, the timetables for the Belfast–Derry railway line are printed with both "Derry Line" and "Londonderry Line" covers. The electronic online timetables use "Derry" for the station name, while printed timetables use "Londonderry".
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