Re: CHAT Cities

John Cowan said:
> Emily Zilch scripsit:
>
>> Here in San Diego, you CAN call yourself a Diegueña... but you confuse
>> people because the Tiipay-Iipay-Kumeyaay tribe were the original
>> residents & hence are called Diegueños in English. Instead we get
>> stupid "San Diegoan". I still stick to calling San Diego residents
>> 'Diegueños' & Providence residents 'Providentials'.
>
> "Providentials"?  Ho.  No one has ever proposed a word for people from
> Independence, Missouri (though "independentistas" comes to mind), nor
> for Bar Harbor, Maine.
>
> People from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. are traditionally Dorpians, but I don't
> know if that usage is still remembered there.
Unfortunately, people from Bartlesville, Oklahoma (like me) are called
'Bartians'.

Rhymes with 'Martians'.


-- Mark (your favorite Bartian)

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