Google Ngram for: ‘Sydney’ vs ‘Melbourne’
Posted: December 19, 2010 Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Melbourne, nGram, Sydney 1 CommentMelbourne almost rivalled Sydney circa 1890 – click to insert your own search terms. More on Ngram here.
Melbourne almost rivalled Sydney circa 1890 – click to insert your own search terms. More on Ngram here.

It’s interesting that when you go through the entries for ‘Sydney’, many of them have nothing to do with the city. Melbourne quite a bit less so.
Searching for ‘City of Sydney’ versus ‘City of Melbourne’ yields interesting results, as do ‘greater’ and ‘metropolitan’ prefixes.