[Ads-l] Utahns

[Mark Mandel]

Yeah, I've seen it, but not nearly as often as if I were closer to Utah
than I am in Philadelphia. But it's a perfectly reasonable outcome of
/'jutɑ:/ + /ən(z)/.

Mark

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> OED2 (1993 addition) has "Utahan" from 1855 and "Utahn" from 1922. Here's
> "Utahn" from 1897-8:

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