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Re: placename nomenclature [was Re: Attn: Spanish speakers]

From:Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...>
Date:Sunday, September 1, 2002, 4:13
Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> what do we call people from ... Connecticut?
The traditional term is Connecticutman/Connecticutwoman, which could be modernized to Connecticutperson. It's not in common use, though, certainly not to the extent that New Yorker or Rhode Islander is. What I've always wondered is: If someone from England is an Englishman, then why is someone from New England a New Englander? =========================================================================== Dennis Paul Himes <> himes@cshore.com http://home.cshore.com/himes/dennis.htm Gladilatian page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/glad/lang.htm Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99

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