[Ads-l] Haligonian

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

A few more irregular demonyms

Monaco, Monégasque
Mexico City, Capitalino
Barbados, Bajan
Madagascar, Malagasy
Ivory Coast (or Cote d’Ivoire), Ivorian

The following page lists some well-known irregular demonyms
Teflpedia: The wiki of English teaching
https://teflpedia.com/Irregular_demonym

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:58 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Oh, and Mancunian (for Manchester). Liverpudlian is less opaque, but more
> adorable.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:55 PM Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
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> > There is Cantabrigian, in reference to Cambridge University or to a
> > resident of Cambridge (England or Massachusetts).  It derives from
> > Cantabrigia, the medieval Latin name for Cambridge.
> >
> > Glaswegian is said to have been formed on the analogy of Norwegian, which
> > would perhaps make more sense if the city were named Glasway.  Haligonian
> > seems to have been the brainchild of whoever named the Halifax Haligonian,
> > a newspaper that was extant in 1839 and 1840; it is immediately not clear
> > how they came up with the name.
> >
> >
> > John Baker
> >
> >
> >
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bill
> > Mullins
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 1:18 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Haligonian
> >
> > An article about Mattea Roach, a recent Jeopardy champion, referred to her
> > as a "Haligonian" -- that is, one from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
> >
> > 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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