Names for inhabitants

[Aaron E. Drews]

Rudolph C Troike wrote:
>  Up the road a
> piece, the newspapers sometimes refer to the inhabitants as "Phoenicians",
> but I doubt that this is really used by ordinary mortals.
>

I was born in Phoenix, and I sometimes refer to myself and inhabitants
of the Valley of the Sun as Phonecians.  Does that make me immortal?
:-)  Or just a daft expatriate who has no idea how to answer the
question "where are you from?"?

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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