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Post by lagatta on Feb 15, 2019 20:02:29 GMT
Demonyms are nouns used to denote the natives or inhabitants of a particular country, state, city, etc. So me are very quirky indeed. Any favourites? en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/demonymIn French, these are gentilés. Any other languages? gentilé Résultat issu du dictionnaire pour "gentilé" nom masculin didactique Dénomination des habitants d'un lieu, relativement à ce lieu.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 15, 2019 20:16:26 GMT
Interesting subject.
My children were born in Winchester, Hampshire and are thus Wintonians.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 5:26:40 GMT
Some towns in France even have referenda about this.
I always liked the name for people from the Paris suburb of Créteil, which does not as such lend itself to being transformed into a harmonious name for its residents. So they are Cristoliens, which makes it sound like they work in a glass factory.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 16, 2019 6:14:13 GMT
We're not as formalised or prescriptive about it as the French, but do have some that are a stretch from the working name of the place - Glaswegian, Mancunian, Salopian (I suspect some or maybe most of them are Victorian inventions by self-important city fathers). And that's before you get to nicknames - Yellow-bellies, Monkey-hangers, Scousers, Mackems. And football teams used to be nicknamed for the town's traditional principal product, like some school geography lesson - Hatters, Toffeemen, Blades, Cobblers. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 6:45:16 GMT
I assume that Créteil straying a bit from the spelling may have had something to do with the proximity of the term crétin.
I can only think of three neighbourhoods in Paris whose residents have an official name, but I'm sure there must be more. People who live in Saint Germain-des-Prés are Germanopratins, people who live in Montparnasse are Parnassiens and people from Montmartre are Montmartrois. Naturally, just typing that made me think of Bellevillois, too.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 16, 2019 11:26:42 GMT
Entre les Montmartois et les Bellevillois, les gens de La Chapelle?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2019 18:11:05 GMT
No idea. I have never seen a term used for them.
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Post by questa on Feb 16, 2019 22:53:46 GMT
Australian examples are very hit-and-miss. Tasmanians are sometimes Taswegians and the Northern Territory (TERRA-tree) is home to Terra-TORI-ans) Novocastrian exists only in quiz nights in Newcastle and no one believes Liverpudlian is really a word. Melbournians are the only ones who are posh enough to use their demonyn in conversation. Then again, there are perfectly good nicknames that are in use.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2019 6:54:33 GMT
Do the New South Welsh call themselves anything?
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Post by questa on Feb 17, 2019 7:15:38 GMT
I've never seen or heard it used. Victorians are called Mexicans because they are 'south the border'.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 17, 2019 13:13:55 GMT
Aren't Liverpudlians usually Scousers? How about people from Blackpool? Québec of course takes a very normative French approach, including researching the first names used for places. But nowadays some Indigenous people are questioning these names, saying that there were older names in use before French exploration or sentiment - problem is, often more than one Indigenous people has a claim to earlier names. www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/toponymie-municipale/gentiles/
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