Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Exonian -- a native of Exeter (NH)

    I don't know if there is a rule.  I was born a Bozemanite and a
    Montanan.  Now I'm a Nashuan and a New Hampshirite. 
    
    My father used to refer to the residents of Seattle as
    Seattle-ites. 

    --bonnie

    Inhabitant of Crete, Nebraska:
    
    	Cretin
    
    Person who moves out of Crete, Nebraska
    
    	Excretin
    
    Clay

    Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina are Charlottans. Residents
    of Baltimore are Baltimorans.
    
    	Jon

    A recent Smithsonian magazine had a short article on this subject.
    Residents of Connecticut ended up being called
    
    commuters.
    
    Inhabitants of Los Angeles are called Angelenos.
    Inhabitants of Syracuse (NY) are called Syracusans (or Orangemen,
    	if they're students at the university).
    
    >M

    Re: .5  -< Massachusettsian? >-
    
    No, he's a Bay Stater!
    
    
    Residents of Maine are often referred to as Maniacs, but the natives
    prefer to be called Mainians instead (spoilsports!!).
    
    
    
    Re: Worcester, MA vs. Wooster, OH  - They aren't even pronounced the
        same anyway, even though furriners sometimes think they are.  I
        guess the people in Ohio decided that since they couldn't pronounce
        it right they might as well spell it as best they could.

    I like Clay's attitude in .3.  The British seem much more creative
    with Glaswegians and Liverpudlians.  It was bad enough having been
    a Californ-ee-ann and a Palo Alt-ann, now I am a Colorad-ann.  How
    boring.  I'm sure the particpants in this conference can do much
    better.  Here a few to start:
    
    Hilotider
    Omahagotchya
    Kankakeeholer
    
    and even Coloradodo
    
    Any others?
    
    Bernie

    Sydneysider
    
    Sid(ney) Snyder

    I prefer to think of someone from New Hampshire as being a
    New Hampster. And someone from Rhode Island as being a Rhodent.
    (And I'm tempted to call someone from Vermont a Vermin :-).)
    
    --- jerry

    OK - hands up all those who know the original Latin name of their
    home town ...
    
    Jeff :-)

	re .-1
    
    	Valbonne: from 'vallis bona', good valley.

    	roger 

    If we're being creative here, and since local wits refer to Nashua
    as Nausea, I guess you could say I'm Nauseaous.
    
    --bonnie

    p.s. re: .9 -- I always thought someone from Vermont was a Varmint? 

    Re: .4
    
    I thought residents of Baltimore were called Balmorans (at least
    that's how they say it!).
    
    Re: .9
    
    Residents of Vermont are called Vermonsters.
    
    Karen (a confirmed Actonian Bay Stater)

    
    Thankfully, from Newton I'm a Newtonite and not a Newtonian. 
    ( But, I do subscribe to his laws - quite faithfully I must
      admit. )
    jc

    I always thought that Maniacs were Down Easters

    It doesn't matter how much of "Baltimorans" you elide, as long as you
    leave the moron at the end. I heard the natives pronounce it that way
    first, so I figure that it, like "Bawlmr" and "Murrilund," must be
    correct. :-) 
    
    	Jon ex-Marylander

    I was born a Utican, a kind of New Yorker, and now, I'm an Irvinite,
    a kind of Californian. Since people from Boston are called Bostonians
    and people from Massachusetts are called weirdos, I'd guess there
    is no rule and it's simply what sounds good.
    
    Is what sounds good in a language called "sonority" by linguists?

      I'm a native Massachusettsian or is it Massachusettsite?  I
      was born in Everett, and as a kid, I wanted to say that I was
      an Everettian (pronounced ev'ree-shun), but there is one too
      many ("one, two, many") T's.  Maybe the word is Everettite.
      We just said "I'm from Everett [pronounced ev'rut].  Wanna
      make somethin' of it?".
      
      We moved to Lynn, but I never heard a term for a resident of
      that city.  I guess we were Lynnians.
      
      I was stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina for a while.
      People who live there are called soldiers.
      
      Later on, I moved back to Mass. and became a Winthropian and
      an Arlingtonian.   Still later, as a San Diegan, I learned
      that being a Californicator is not against the law.
      
      Still later, I moved back to Mass. again, and became a Walthamite,
      a Lowellian, and now I'm a North Reader.
      
      Dave C.

      Re .17
      
>    Is what sounds good in a language called "sonority" by linguists?

      My high school French teacher called it 'euphony,' but she
      may have been talking about the lame excuse someone gave for
      not turning in their homework.
      
      Dave C.

    I recently encountered some tourists from Alaska.  I think they
    were all Nomedeplumers.
    
    Bernie

    Re: .10
    
    Cinch.  Londinium - one of the very few town-names I know the Latin
    for, as it came up in Ast�rix chez les Bretons.
    
    People from London are called Londoners, tho' I may have come across
    the term `Londinensian' somewhere.
    
    Posh schools favour fancy names:
    
    	Harrow - Old Harrovian
    	Eton - Old Etonian
    	Salisbury - Old Salopian (I think)
    	Winchester - Wykehamist
    	Stowe - Stoic
    
    There must be more. Upwardly-mobile schools do the same sort of trick,
    but I suspect it's only for show: 
    
    	Ealing (to which I _didn't_ go, tho' it was 10 mins walk away
    	from my home at the time)
    		- Old Ealonian
    
    	Reading
    		- Old Redingensian (I think)

    People from Glasgow are Glaswegians...  
    
    I can't make out any rhyme or reason to it. 

    b

    Here in Schaumburg, Illinois, we call the natives Schaumburgers.
    (We also refer to this little grotto as "Scumburg", but that's another
    story.)
    
    I'm from Wheaton; they always called us Wheatonites.  Now I live
    in Willow Springs.  Anyone have any hot ideas?  
    Willow Springer (spaniel)?
    
    Spd

    
    I'm from England .... so I'm a 'rampaging yobbo' .
            
    John J
    

    I live in Cambridge, where the residents are Cantabridgians... which
    is why I spell everything out.  But I was born in Michigan, home
    of the Michiganders...sexist, huh?  They could just as well have
    called themselves Michigeese, which is like a root word of what my family
    called ourselves, Michuganahs. 
    
    By the way, I thought people from Maine called themselves Mainers.
    
    Nina    

    
    	I've heard that people from Massachusetts could be called
    	Massholes.
    
    	Joe Oppelt

    People from Chester, the Roman town in England, are called Cestrians.

    ...but people from Manchester are Mancunians.
    
    Recent replies to 396 have reminded me of another one: Aberdeen
    => Aberdonian.
    
    b

    
    Galway...Galwegian...'herring-choker' (slang/insult)
    Dublin...Dubliner...'jackeen' (sl/ins)
    Cork.....Corkonian or Leesider.
    
    - Dave K.

    Being from Heath, we were simply 'Heathens', next to Rowe, populated
    by Romans, but what did we call people from Charlemont and Shelburne
    Falls?, Why, Flatlanders, of course...MWR
    

    In Aussie, people from the state of New South Wales are New South
    Welshmen (no, it didn't go to New South Welshperson!) and the people
    of Newcastle (in the same state) are Novocastrians. Latin, for those
    who didn't recognise it. Who said all Aussies are beer-swilling,
    crocodile-wrestling larrikins ?  There's a faint smear of culture
    here!                               Regards   Guy

    > ... the people of Newcastle (in the same state) are Novocastrians.
    > Latin, for those who didn't recognise it. Who said all Aussies are
    > beer-swilling, crocodile-wrestling larrikins ?

    Me.  You just took it straight from the English usage.  It doesn't mean
    you understood it :-) :-) :-)
    
    Jeff.

    G'day,
    
    Don't you worry, Jeff. He dropped his yogurt. It's the only smear
    of culture he gets!
    
    
    :-)
    
    djw
    
    

    �Who said all Aussies are beer-swilling, crocodile-wrestling
    larrikins ?�
    
    I can't imagine why anyone would say that. After all, I'm sure
    that at least some of you are beer-swilling dingo-wrestling
    larrikins.
    
    --- jerry

    Help! Calling all Aussies!
    We need a collective smart-*** reply for these unfortunate non-Aussies.

    Surely the answer for you to give all non-Aussies is an expression
    of sadness or commiseration that the rest of the world aren't members
    of the chosen race.
    
    Still it was the race chosen by the highest officers of the English
    judiciary.

    Sorry but I like cheap jokes!!
    
    Nick :-)  

    I'm not going to correct their ignornace. I spent three weeks in
    Australia savoring Australian wines, Australian cooking both
    gourmet and plain, and in general enjoying an experience that was
    as close to heaven as I expect to come in this life. But I'm
    afraid that if they find out the truth, they'll all want to go
    there, and they'll ruin it for the rest of us. 
    
    --bonnie

        in the light of .36, I would say that a large number of
        Australians are just plain hedonists...
        
        q
        

    Or is that "a number of large Australians are just plain hedonists..."?
    
    :-)

    Having just moved to Australia from New Zealand, I would have to
    sy that Australians aren't hedonists, merely Americans in training!
    
    	Klaas
    

        re .38
        
        I resemble that remark.
        
        re .39
        
        New Zealand, where if you ask for spicy food in a restaurant,
        they bring out the salt and pepper. Where many vineyards have
        closed down over the last few years, Where the restaurants
        close at some early hour...
        
        sigh....
        
        q
        

Back in college, I knew a fellow who grew up in or near the town of
Maxico, New York.  He claimed that people from there would be offended if
referred to as Mexicans; the correct term for them is Mexicanians, pronounced
"mex-i-KAY-nee-ins".  Similarly, the term for people from the town of
Cuba, New York, is pronounced "kyoo-BAY-nee-ins".

    Re .41
    
    > the term for people from the town of
    > Cuba, New York, is pronounced "kyo-BAY-nee-ins".
    
    Not Cubists?
    
    I refer to Waterloo graduates as Waterloonatics, but for some reason
    no one else does.
    
    Hmm, in India, I should have asked if the natives were called Americans.
    Forgot to ask.