City Adjs. (Was: "Garden City")

AAllan at AOL.COM AAllan at AOL.COM
Tue Jul 18 13:17:16 UTC 2000


<< Mr. Salavesh's use of _Chicagoan_ got me thinking about city/state
adjectives.  Is there a list of irregular ones somewhere? >>

There's a Merriam-Webster book by Paul Dickson, _Labels for Locals: What to
Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe_ (1997). Many are just simple entries
(Clinton, Indiana: Clintonian.) but some have extensive commentaries (like
the possibilities for residents of Connecticut). - Allan Metcalf



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