City Adjs. (Was: "Garden City")

[Bruce Dykes]

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From: AAllan at AOL.COM <AAllan at AOL.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: City Adjs. (Was: "Garden City")


><< 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

One of the things that annoyed me when Perot was politically noisy was that
his followers were called Perotnistas in the press...I really, really wanted
them to use Perotvians...

bkd