Demonyms for staters

[Viktor77]

I'm lacking only Massachusetts. Massachusites? Massachusians? What?

Alabama- Alabamians
Alaska- Alaskans
Arizona- Arizonans
Arkansas- Akansans
California- Californians
Colorado- Coloradans
Connecticut- Connecticuters
Delaware- Delawereans
Florida- Floridians
Georgia- Georgians
Hawaii- Hawaiians
Idaho- Idahoans
Illinois- Illinoisians (Do people actually use this, though?)
Indiana- Indianans
Iowa- Iowans
Kansas- Kansans
Kentucky- Kentuckians
Louisiana- Louisianans
Maine- Mainers
Maryland- Marylanders
Massachusetts-
Michigan- Michiganders
Minnesota- Minnesotans
Mississippi- Mississippians
Missouri- Missourian
Montana- Montanans
Nebraska- Nebraskans
Nevada- Nevadans
New Hampshire- New Hampshirites
New Jersey- New Jerseyans
New Mexico- New Mexicans
New York- New Yorkers
North Carolina- North Carolinians
North Dakota- North Dakotans
Ohio- Ohioan
Oklahoma- Oklahomans
Oregon- Oregonians
Pennsylvania- Pennsylvanians
Rhode Island- Rhode Islanders
South Carolina- South Carolinians
South Dakota- South Dakotans
Tennessee- Tennesseans
Texas- Texans
Utah-Utahans
Vermont- Vermonters
Virginia- Virginians
Washington- Washingtonians
West Virginia- West Virginians
Wisconsin- Wisconsinites
Wyoming- Wyomingites

[Bob Johnson]

Massachusettsans obviously.

Also it's statans. Rhymes with satans.

[MisterBernie]

Indiana- Indianans

Hoosiers

[Jipí]

NEXT WEEK: NICKNAMES OF AMERICAN RIVERS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

[Viktor77]

NEXT WEEK: NICKNAMES OF AMERICAN RIVERS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

I realise we've been on a US state high recently. Just flow with it. I'm sure someday Germany's turn will come and we'll have people asking, what do people from Schleswig-Holstein call themselves?

[Bob Johnson]

NEXT WEEK: NICKNAMES OF AMERICAN RIVERS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

Stay tuned for Lists of Words, coming up next: How many words ending in -phobia can you think of!?

[Rui]

Hm, I think I'm heard "Connecticutian" [k@nE4I"kju.S1n] more than "Connecticuter", but both still sound awkward. I prefer "Nutmegger"

[Bob Johnson]

Connecticutioner. /kənɛtəkjuːʃənɻ̩/

[Viktor77]

Hm, I think I'm heard "Connecticutian" [k@nE4I"kju.S1n] more than "Connecticuter", but both still sound awkward. I prefer "Nutmegger"

So in the news they say, 'All across the state, Nutmeggers are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Irene. Now let's go to Steve Winooski in Stonington with the latest on how Nutmeggers are weathering the storm"?

[Astraios]

Why don't you just do what the rest of the world does and say "from [state]"?

[Viktor77]

Why don't you just do what the rest of the world does and say "from [state]"?

It may very well be that case, but IME local newscasters love using cute little state demonyms. It personalises things I think.

[linguoboy]

NEXT WEEK: NICKNAMES OF AMERICAN RIVERS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

Personally, I'm fond of "Tight-Assed River" for the Illinois (as featured in the title of a chapter in a Malcolm Gladwell book). Oh, and people do actually say "Illinoisans".

[Gulliver]

I see your states and raise you British denonyms.

Liverpool - Liverpudlian or Scouse (slightly broader, inclused nearby areas).
Newcastle - Geordie.
Manchester - Mancunian.
London - Londoner.
Bristol/Bristle/Brizzle - Bristolian.
Brighton - Brightonian.
Kent - Kentish.
Lewes - Lewesian (rhymes with Indonesian).
Glasgow - Glaswegian.
Birmingham - Brummie.

[Viktor77]

Glasgow - Glaswegian.

Influenced by Norwegian?

[Gulliver]

Glasgow - Glaswegian.

Influenced by Norwegian?

Other way round. The country was originally a county called Norgow and just north of the rest of Scotland but Glasgow was so mean to it that it changed its name and moved, becoming a country in the process (easier to do, less paperwork).

[Rui]

Hm, I think I'm heard "Connecticutian" [k@nE4I"kju.S1n] more than "Connecticuter", but both still sound awkward. I prefer "Nutmegger"

So in the news they say, 'All across the state, Nutmeggers are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Irene. Now let's go to Steve Winooski in Stonington with the latest on how Nutmeggers are weathering the storm"?

When, in local news? None of them is used much because it's the local news, it's assumed that the people affected are from CT. Kidding of course, I have heard "Nutmeggers" on local news, but everyone in CT already understands that while people from out of state wouldn't necessarily. I don't think I've *EVER* heard "Connecticuters" or "Connecticutians" or any other variety of "Connecticut"+[demonym suffix] on the news ever. I think it's mostly like Astraios said, "people from/in/of/across Connecticut"

[linguoboy]

I see your states and raise you British denonyms.

I love it when a demonym has an obscure relationship to the corresponding toponym, particularly when some idiosyncratic Latinisation is involved, as with Cantabrigian or Regiomontano. It saddens me not to have more of these in the states. Imagine what a hard-on it would give Viktor to be a Districtensian!

[Viktor77]

I see your states and raise you British denonyms.

I love it when a demonym has an obscure relationship to the corresponding toponym, particularly when some idiosyncratic Latinisation is involved, as with Cantabrigian or Regiomontano. It saddens me not to have more of these in the states. Imagine what a hard-on it would give Viktor to be a Districtensian!

Hey, I'm a Michigander! Not a Michiganian, Michiganer, but a Michigander! The first settlers here took a gander at the landscape and decided they must be Michiganders. After all, our state motto is Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice!

[MisterBernie]

You could still be an Aquamagnander. Honk if you believe...

[finlay]

Who needs demonyms? We get by fine without one in Edinburgh.

The ones I find funny are Gibraltarians – so few people have heard of or been to their city that the demonym they actually use sounds a bit fake to our ears (it's something to do with the stress shift from /dʒɪˈbrɒltə(r)/ to /ˌdʒɪbrɒlˈteriən/, imo). A lot of people invent things like "Gibraltese", which is much catchier (and rhymes well with "Maltese") but seems to annoy them for some reason.

[linguoboy]

.The ones I find funny are Gibraltarians

Calpensians!

[hwhatting]

I'm sure someday Germany's turn will come and we'll have people asking, what do people from Schleswig-Holstein call themselves?

Schleswig-Holsteiner
Hamburger (Yes!)
Niedersachse
Bremer
Nordrhein-Westfale
Rheinland-Pfälzer
Hesse
Saarländer
Baden-Württemberger
Bayer
Thüringer
Sachse
Brandenburger
Berliner
Sachsen-Anhalter
Mecklenburger
(All in the nom.sg. I you want the plurals, send me a cheque. )

[linguoboy]

(All in the nom.sg. I you want the plurals, send me a cheque. )

Was für'n Schwindel! They're virtually all identical to the singulars!

[hwhatting]

(All in the nom.sg. I you want the plurals, send me a cheque. )

Was für'n Schwindel! They're virtually all identical to the singulars!

Foiled again!

[alice]

Who needs demonyms? We get by fine without one in Edinburgh.

Edinburghensian, finlay.