Re: CHAT Cities
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 5:00 |
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EZ> Here in San Diego, you CAN call yourself a Diegueña... but you confuse
EZ> people because the Tiipay-Iipay-Kumeyaay tribe were the original
EZ> residents & hence are called Diegueños in English. Instead we get
EZ> stupid "San Diegoan". I still stick to calling San Diego residents
EZ> 'Diegueños' & Providence residents 'Providentials'.
Well, "Atlantans" is unproblematic, but I grew up in a town called
Warner Robins; we were never termed anything other than "Warner Robins
residents" on the news, although I personally like to use the term
"Warnerrobinsian". About 12 miles away from Warner Robins is the larger
town of Macon, whose residents were most often "Maconites" but sometimes
"Maconians". There again, though, I deviated from the norm by calling
my friends from Macon "Macons", by analogy with Vulcan/Vulcans.
-Mark
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