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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Belgians

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?