[Ads-l] Haligonian

[Stanton McCandlish]

In the course of doing some heraldry and name-history research for
Cuindlis.org I ran into what I think is the explanation for "Glaswegian".
The demonym for people from Galloway (a region of Scotland) is
"Gallowegian", by close analogy to Norway/Norwegian.  "Glaswegian" was
likely coined by less-close analogy later.


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:18 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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