BS: People from your town called?

Subject: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:30 AM

In Britain, citizens of major towns are named after them in some way.

There doesn쳌ft seem to be any hard & fast rules to this process, which includes anomalies like



Manchester = Mancunian

Chester = Cestrian

Lancaster or Lancashire = Lancastrian

Liverpool = Liverpudlian


Does anyone know how this naming process evolved?

Also, how쳌fre the inhabitants of your town known?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:33 AM

Halifax West Yorkshire, generally known as morons.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:36 AM

Pocatello = Pocatellans or less formally as Pokeys.

Idaho = Idahoers Idahoans.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:40 AM

Ambridge - Ambridles

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: bobad
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:49 AM

Avonmore - Avonmorons of course.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: theleveller
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:57 AM

Loiners come from Leeds

Codheads come from Hull

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:08 AM

So are people from Goole - Goolies?

(Old I know, but heck, I got it off Leadfingers!)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:13 AM

Londoners from London, but no Swindonners from Swindon. Glasgwegians but not Polperregians. Do Cistercians come from Cirencester?

Norwegians, but not Zimbabwegians or Bombegians. Iranians, but Iraqis, Pakistanis but Sudanese. Peruvians ok, but do they call those big fellas Tuvaluvians?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:43 AM

The spelchecker kept trying to convert Macunians to Manchurians!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:47 AM

My 'town'? No one has any idea what to call us!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:48 AM

I'd like to think that people from Pontypool are Pontypudlians, but I'm not convinced ...

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:49 AM

The town closest to where I live is called Jay. People from Jay don't call themselves anything. Living there is bad enough, attaching a name to it would only make it worse.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 09:58 AM

Once people from Cleethorpes,and part of the town, were called "Meggies"

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:01 AM

I guess you could say Bill lives among his fellow Wheaties...



A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:05 AM

...traffic of Champions!,,,and lots of flakes!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: jeffp
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:06 AM

My friends who went to the high school there called it "Eat One."

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bee
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:19 AM

Halifax NS = Haligonians.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:23 AM

'When first I came to Haligonia?'

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:38 AM

Actually, BillD, I've heard y'uns called "Wheatonians"--a fittingly futuristic moniker for the stewards of the Western Hemisphere's Longest Elevator--

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:18 AM

Them Jaybirds where BWL lives, now, they aren't soft. They wanna go tuh the movies they have to go clear to Alabama. How about them apples?

A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:21 AM

I suppose some around here might be known as Cliftonites...sounds rather Super Mannish, doesn't it? Then there'd be the Grand Junctionites? I don't know, never stopped to think about it, but I've never heard either one. Now, if you are a native you are a Caw-lah-RA(as in radish)-dun, but if you're a transplant, it most likely comes out as CALL-oh-RAW-doe-uhn.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:23 AM

Them as is from Grand Junction, Kat, are best known as Grand Juncquees.


A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:24 AM

I pondered this question when I lived in Florida and decided on the following for the two main cities in my area.

St. Petersburg = St. Petersburger

Tampa = Tampan

These are not official but I think they should be.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:25 AM

in UK, people from places with the suffix 'ton' are generally called '...tonians'

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:27 AM

And folks from Clifton could be called Clifton Dwellers.

But what about my friend Peggy, who lives in Hannibal, Missouri? Is she a Hanniballian or a Hanniballer?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:35 AM

Yeah, I know about the "tonians," but I think "ites" sounds better**bg**

Junquees, indeed, Amos. And, Rapaire...haha...only the dwellings are over some really high mountains and several hours to the south of us.:-)

As to your friend, wouldn't it depend on her gender and/or sexual preference?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:36 AM

I was born in Shropshire = Salopian.

I can't think of any off hand for any towns I've lived in/near to except Conwy. People born within the walls are Jackdaws.

People from Caernarfon are known as cofis (covies). People from Bangor can be called Bangor Ayes.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: theleveller
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:05 PM

"So are people from Goole - Goolies?"

Actually, Liz, that's exactly what they're called.

People from Howden are Howdenites - very boring!

I live in the nearby village of Wressle and we call ourselves (wait for it) Wresslers!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:13 PM

People from Conway are called Twitters, I believe....



A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: theleveller
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:14 PM

Actually, I wasn't stricty correct when I said that all people from Hull were called Codheads. Those from Brandsholme Estate are usually referred to as The Accused.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:19 PM

Orillia - Orillians! Yes, the proudest folk in all of North America, because Orillia has more Tim Horton's Donut Shops per capita than any other place in the World!!!!!!!!!!!


Welcome to Orillia!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:37 PM

New Orleanians = "Yats," in tribute to the long-popular local greeting "Where Y'at?"

This saying was most ubiquitous among working-class white folks, many of whom have moved from their neighborhoods in the city out to the suburbs. The term often connotes a sort of lowbrow culture, but has become more affectionate than ironic. It is sometimes applied to the population as a whole, sometimes specifically to white local folks, practically never to an all-black group of Orleanians.

The proper response to the question "Where Y'at?" is...

..."Where Y'at?"

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 12:42 PM

We're called rednecks....

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 01:57 PM

We're called rednecks....

Ah hurd that!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 02:16 PM

There is no pride-of-place term for people from Scotts Valley; it's a town with no identity that doesn't even have a downtown. Sad, really

So I'd have to go with either Eclectians (for my intentional community, which is called Eclectia) or Cruzers (for nearby Santa Cruz -- also I live in Santa Cruz County).

Perhaps we should rename our community Income, so we could all be called Incompoops.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 02:35 PM

ClaireBear ... Many, many years ago I lived in Felton, just down the hill from you in Scotts Valley. Back then, there was a wonderful Danish restaurant that was family run. I don't suppose it's still there?

My Father's family came from Finland. Over there, it was (is?) the custom to attatch the name of your town to your own name. The more you moved, the longer your name. My Father was born with five birth names, one of which translates as "Pennisula", for the area his people came from. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 02:47 PM

ummm..M.Ted...we in Wheaton are custodians of the longest escalator. I suppose the elevator is pretty 'deep', too, but there are some in places like NYC and Chicago that have longer single runs.

(yes, yes....I know that you know the difference, but the chance to tweak is never to be passed up!)☺

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 02:48 PM

Here in San Diego, Billed as American's Finest City, we just call ourselves Wise Choosers.


A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 03:57 PM

We're called Metchosinites. Seems fitting, as there is a larger community nearby, known as Colwood and local bumper stickers have read over the years, "Many are Colwood, but few are Metchosin."

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 04:07 PM

Geez, Bill! You have now revealed that you're in Wheaton! How can you subject yourself to such risk when you know that Dubya and Condi are busily trying to track you down and "smoke you out"?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 04:10 PM

are people from Wetwang -Wetwangers or Wetwangites?
In Beverley we are Beverlonians in Hull I think they have been renamed Floodites!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: bill\sables
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 04:57 PM

In Lancaster County Pensylvania there is a town called Intercourse. I wonder what the people there are called.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:04 PM

lol, Bill/Sables; I, of course, thought of a rude label.

Living in Alaska's capital city, I suppose we are called Juneauites. In my home town in Oregon in Oregon, I think the inhabitants are called McMinnvillians.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,Helen
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:19 PM

Mr Happy asked "Does anyone know how this naming process evolved?"

Manchester = Mancunian

History of the name of Manchester - Wikipedia
The name Manchester originates from the Ancient Roman name Mamucium, thought to be a Latinisation of an original Celtic name (possibly meaning "breast-like hill" from mamm- = "breast"), plus Anglo-Saxon ceaster = "town", which is derived from Latin **castra = "camp".[12]

**[castrum - singular, castra - plural] Helen


Origin from Latin name of Manchester - Answers.com
Man·cu·ni·an (măn-kyū'nē-ən, -kyūn'yən) pronunciation
adj.

Of or relating to Manchester, England.
n.

A native or inhabitant of Manchester, England.

[From Latin Mancunium, Manchester, of Celtic origin.]

The Latin origins of Ceaster - Chester - castra also relate to Chester & Lancaster.

Chester = Cestrian

Lancaster or Lancashire = Lancastrian

Liver-"pool" to Liver-"puddle" => Liverpuddlian

Liverpool = Liverpudlian

I live in Newcastle in Australia. We refer to ourselves as Novocastrians from the Latin - nova = new & castrum = camp.

I don't know if the people from the UK city of Newcastle refer to themselves this way.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:47 PM

Geordies, Helen.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:52 PM

Hmmm...I never heard my mom or dad call themselves that, Helen.:-) Though, their town was New Castle, named after a Newcastle in the UK. Don't know why they separated the parts.

Wonder what my brother and sister would be called after their birthplace of Glenwood Springs...Springsters?**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:56 PM

Folks who live in Intercourse, PA are called "Amish." Likewise the folks who live in Blue Ball.

Q.: What do they call people who live in Antarctica?
A.: Cold.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Emma B
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 05:57 PM

There are a few theories how Geordies got their name.

Nothing upsets a Teesider more though than to called a Geordie :)

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 07:07 PM

Little Hawk...I have few worries about GW & Condi. They know where I am, but they also know I and my friends live very close to the upper end of 16th Street, which is downhill all the way to the White House...and we have bowling balls! Besides, they have their heads down right now, trying not to answer questions.


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Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: bobad
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 07:13 PM

What do you think the folks from this town in Austria are called?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: bobad
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 07:17 PM

Or the folks from this town in Newfoundland?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Gene Burton
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 07:24 PM

People from Southampton, like myself, are known across the south coast as "Scummers"...I've been told that this dates back from a time when the Portsmouth dockers were on strike and dockers from Southampton were drafted in to blackleg; and "scummer" is either a corruption or variant of "scab". A moderately interesting titbit, if true.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 07:26 PM

People who live in Pensacola are called "Pensacolians", but people who live at Pensacola Beach are called either "Drunks" or "Parrotheads".

Or both.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:26 PM

In the rest of the country, we're called JAFAs.

Just Another Fucking Aucklander.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Padre
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 10:15 PM

In the town of Eagle Rock, they're 'Eagle Rockers'

Padre, who really lives closer to Lick Run and the Runners

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bert
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 11:42 PM

People from the city of London and nearby are called Cockneys.
Everyone in the Greater London Area is a Londoner.

And we have our own song. "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"

Are there songs for people from other places which mention them by name?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: M.Ted
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 01:38 AM

Thanks for the heads-up, BillD. Escalator/Elevator. Two different things, apparently. I'll remember that.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bert
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 01:59 AM

We were listening to Frank Muir one time on "My Word".

They were playing an answer/question game.

The answer was "Blemish" What was the question?




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Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 08:44 AM

Well people from Wedgebury (Wednesbury to those wot doh spake Black coontry) call themselves Wodensburgians or Wodensbergers. It has something to do with the name Wednesbury being derived from the god Woden (similar to Wednesday) and presumably a Tumuilous there. Though the Church is most definitely built on the site of an Opidum (Iron Age Hill Fort to you). I would assume the Woden connection comes from the years of Dane Law.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: theleveller
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM

"are people from Wetwang -Wetwangers or Wetwangites?"

Linda, when I was at school in Bridlington, we just used to call them "Wangers"...or something very similar!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 09:50 AM

I feel that I have to make a correction.

theleveller says that people from Hull are called Codheads. That is the name for people from Grimsby. Hull people are properly called 'Hullensians', but are more colloquially known as 'Hullkids', as in the expression 'Hullkids against the World'.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: goatfell
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 10:08 AM

people frae Glasgow and called Glaswegians, people frae Aberdeen are called Aberdoians and people frae Dundee are Dundonians (sorry for the spelling).
I'm from Saltcoats which is on the west coast of Scotland and we don't have anything yet.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Alice
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 10:13 AM

Bozemanites (not Bozos)

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 05:37 PM

People where I live, Pontefract, are called Pomfresians.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 11:43 PM

A town close by us here is named OGLESBY.

I do suspect most anyone from there of any gender at all are OGLESBIANS.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Amos
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 12:49 AM

"Not nearly as interesting, but this is how the town Arab, Alabama got it's
name.

The Postmaster sent in three names:

1. Bird
2. Ink
3. Arad (his name)

They couldn't read his hand writing and named the town Arab. It's pronounced
A-rab. Accent on A. The postmaster was too lazy to write in and have it
changed so Arab it was.

Tualatin where I live now is an Indian name meaning lazy river.

The area of Tualatin Valley which became Beaverton was originally the home
of a Native American tribe known as the Atfalati which settlers
mispronounced as Tualatin.

The river earned its name, which means "lazy river," from the Atfalati
people who lived in the Tualatin Basin. Basically, it is more like a long
skinny lake than a river and has very little current, particularly in the
summer months.
"


(From a friend)



A

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 01:29 AM

Jackasses.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:03 AM

I live in Liverpool, UK, and some 20 miles north of here is the seaside town of Southport ( which boasts the Bothy Folk Song Club - over 40 years old and still going!). Now, people born in Southport are called Sandgrounders. The area, I believe, has the longest, continous expanse of beach/sand-dunes in the country.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Ernest
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 11:26 AM

I grew up in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. Giessener are also known as "Schlammbeisser", which translates to "Mudbiters".

Try to beat THAT.

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 12:36 PM

No songs yet guys? Come on you're not trying.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 12:52 PM

You want a song? Look up "Welcome to Orillia" on YouTube.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 01:06 PM

.............& then there's how people in other countries are called by others, as opposed to how they refer to themselves.

Germans call themselves Deustch, English speaking nations call them Germans, & the French nations refer to them as Allemande.

I've heard that the indigenous peoples of the polar regions don't like to be known as Eskimos, preferring Inuit or some other native name.

Similarly with aboriginals around the world being unhappy by being called 'Indians' or 'abos'.

The only Indians are from India, for English speakers – the inhabitants of the subcontinent referring to it as Hindustan or Burrat (sp?) depending of their ethnicity.



There's lots've suffixes attached to land/country names to describe their respective inhabitants, but again seems no rationale to this labelling.

As in English, Polish etc, but not Americ-ish or Peruv-ish.


A rule which does seem to emerge is that generally, countries whose names end in 'ia' or 'a' simply have an 'n' tagged on to form Canadian, Italian, Bolivian etc

But why not Canadonian, Maltian etc?

Anyone know?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 02:10 PM

Yes, the Germans call themselves the Deutsch (similar to "Dutch"?) and they live in Deutchsland....while the Dutch call themselves Nederlanders (I think so, anyway), and they live in Nederland, which we call Holland or The Netherlands.

Mysterious, isn't it?

I wonder what the Chinese really call themselves? Or the Japanese?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 03:03 PM

That's about the town LH, I want songs about the inhabitants.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 08:13 AM

Maybe its because I'm a Londoner - that I love London town.

Will of Winsberry

I belong tae Glasga, dear old Glasga toon.

Liverpool Loo

OK not much in the noun posessive dept but it should get folks thinking.

Mutton Chops & I started a song "I'm Orilla Bound" but never got it finished.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Santa
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 11:13 AM

People from Blackpool are described as being "sandgrown". Both my kids were born in Blackpool but disclaim the name, having been brought up on the Fylde. Prestonians come from Preston.

I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and am happy at being called a Geordie, as most know what that means. But having spend most of my youth on the Durham coal field makes me a Pityakker - those who talk the language of the pits - pitmatic. Those from Sunderland call themselves Makkems, but that's something that's appeared in the 40 years since I left the area. Anyone from the Tees is a southerner. Anyone from south of the Tees is either a Tyke (Yorkshireman) or a bloody southerner.

My wife is from south Birmingham but is not a Brummie (from brumagem, said to match the local pronunciation).

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 01:09 PM

How con yoh be frum Sowf Brum and not a Brummie - by osmosis at least?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 01:22 PM

Depends which part of South Brum you mean: Balsall Heath or Stirchley yes, but Shirley or Hollywood?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: meself
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 01:29 PM

"Halifax West Yorkshire, generally known as morons."

"Avonmore - Avonmorons of course."

Hmmm - there's a neighbourhood in Halifax, NS, called 'Jollimore' - its inhabitants are, of course, 'Jollimorons'.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 03:12 PM

Broomfield, CO. So we sound like defensive players on a curling team...Broomfielders.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Feb 08 - 09:16 PM

Abidjanaises, if you're female, Abidjanais, if you're male.

And I think people from Baltimore are Baltimorons.

Charlottesvillians have no good nickname, unfortunately. The Enlightened?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 05:36 AM

.......& them from South Shields are known as 'Sand Dancers' - dunno why though?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 05:39 AM

'Abidjanaises, if you're female, Abidjanais, if you're male.'

Is 'Abidjan' a country or a town?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: The PA
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 06:10 AM

Bromsgrove - Swedes.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: theleveller
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 06:27 AM

"theleveller says that people from Hull are called Codheads. That is the name for people from Grimsby."

Well, Les, I've always called them Codheads and I've got the scars to prove it (mostly acquired in Humber Street pubs in the late 1960s)...

Actually, I recently discovered that one side of my family hails from Hull - greatx5 grandfather was a whaler who was lost in Baffin Bay in the 1830s and great x3 grandfather was a sea captain. Really very embarrassing!

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 08:12 AM

we are known as smoggies in middlesbrough,because of our industrial heritage,although the death of heavy industry now means the air pollution is no problem now.Smoggie is less offensive than being called a geordie.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 10:06 AM

.........& those from Hamburg, Beefburgers?

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 09:43 AM

I grew up in Bundaberg - home of the Rum.

At one time there was a debate whether local people should be called Bundabergians, or Bundaburgundians. The latter seemed to be more favoured, as there was some dislike of sounding like some form of Hamburger...

I'm not making this up you know...

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 10:13 AM

Bundaberg?

If you rearrange the letters, you get some quirky anagrams:

badger bun

bug brenda   

begun drab   

bung bread

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 01:26 PM

Shirley is Solihull which aye Brum thems posh.
An Hollywood aye Brum, 'sover the border and thems pays rates tew Bromsgrove. Ar shud no - I married a wench frum theer and we had tew goo tew the reg office theer. Wished I didn't. Owr Kid.

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 01:32 AM

Mr Red, I thought all Black Country folk were called Am Yo's?

"Am yo gewin to see owr muther this week?"

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Rowan
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:07 PM

People from your town called?
I wish they'd left a note to say why!

But, more to the point, people from Armidale (in the Oz New England) are frequently called Armadilians.

It confuses herpetologists.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: People from your town called?
From: Rowan
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM

Q.: What do they call people who live in Antarctica?
A.: Cold.

True, and "Blasted" in those parts where the average windspeed every night over summer is 30 knots. Those of us who've been expeditioners (there's one of the terms used to describe us; another is "winterers" if you stayed there over winter) with Australia's Antarctic Division, were sometimes called "Sharp Anaries" (pronounced "anahries").

We were members of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (to whichever base in the relevant year) and this was known as ANARE. At the time I was there (1968-70 for the 1969 Mawson ANARE) each of us was issued with personal clobber which included clothing, both domestic and protective, first aid kit and a foldup pocket knife with one blade (straight edge as used in the days of sail), marlinspike and a short tab that could be used as a lever or screwdriver. The blade, as issued, was invariably blunt so the knives were routinely known as "Sharp Anaries" and the same put-down was applied to many of the items or systems routinely used "down south"; eg, the boots were "sharp anare boots" and the summer jackets were "sharp anare jackets". They were, however, perfectly adequate to their tasks and mine are still functioning quite well, thank you.

The appellation worked with people at Australian stations but I don't know what personnel at other nationalities' stations called themselves.

Cheers, Rowan