Re: CHAT Cities

On the topic of all of this, people from Sydney are Sydney-siders (or
Sydneysiders,  Sydney-Siders) and people from Melbourne are Melburnians
or Melbournites; the spelling 'Melbournian' occurs but is often
perceived by Melburnians as wrong (because it doesn't describe the
pronunciation). But that's about as interesting as it gets. Most other
people are just people from placename, or placename+(a)n or +ite.

--
Tristan.

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>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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