[Ads-l] Haligonian

[Mark Mandel]

It reminds me of "Oxonian", though I doubt that the etymology is really
comparable.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Oxonian

MAM

On Wed, May 11, 2022, 1:18 PM 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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