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Think Elgin City is right. The explanation, weak though it is, relates to Lincoln United. Slightly annoying when we're referred to as Exeter, though not as bad as when a (non-footballing) friend asked me how Exeter Town were getting on. 'Excuse me!' I spluttered in reply.
I remember in the 90s or early 2000s when Sky Sports News used to put the table up they would always list us as "Ex'ter" which used to irritate the living daylights out of me given that an apostrophe and an "e" take up more or less the same amount of space.
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