[Ads-l] Haligonian

[Laurence Horn]

Cantabrigian? Oxonian? Norwegian?  Hoosier?

> On May 11, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> An article about Mattea Roach, a recent Jeopardy champion, referred to her as a "Haligonian" -- that is, one from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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> Why "Haligonian" instead of "Halifaxian"?  Why "Glaswegian" instead of "Glasgowian"?  Are there other names like this, where the denonym is more distantly related to its place name than normal?
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