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Roslindale — called “Rozzie”

An attested claim that Roslindale is called “Rozzie”. Diminutive form. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Roslindale. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.

Roslindale is called Rozzie

This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.

Subject
Roslindale
Predicate
vernacular_name
Attested by
English Wikipedia
Attestor kind
reference work
Attested since, as stated
as at the date of retrieval
Attestation strength
attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
Variant note
Diminutive form.

Evidence

English Wikipedia, “Roslindale”, retrieved 2 September 2026

Roslindale is depicted in the 2017 film, Last Night in Rozzie

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:claim:roslindale-vernacular-name-rozzie
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/claim/roslindale-vernacular-name-rozzie
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/claim/roslindale-vernacular-name-rozzie.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
English Wikipedia — source of record
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
Roslindale
Attribution
Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rights as stated
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki APIarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2verifysearched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recordedarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3quotetook the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claimarchive-ingest 0.1.0