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Re: Regional Citizenship
Posted By: Lucky Wizard, on host 4.60.250.177
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 07:06:29
In Reply To: Regional Citizenship posted by Ferrick on Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 21:57:46:

> Others are different and more complex. The Netherlands give us the Dutch but not Hollish people.

In case you were asking, it's because the people of the Netherlands are ethnic Germans, and "Dutch" comes from a word meaning "German".

> Are the Burmese now Myanmese or Myanmarians?

Still the Burmese, according to m-w.com. (And m-w.com lists Myanmar as the country's current name.)

> How about Oregonians, Idahoans, and Washingtonians?

Oregonians is correct. (The Oregonian is the name of the local newspaper here.)

> Are there Utahens, Utahnites, or are they just Utes?

Some of the Olympic news reports I've been seeing say "Utahns"; I've seen other spellings in other Olympic news reports, but I don't remember them.

> Any weird names given because of what region you are from and what determines what you are called?

I read that in Manchester, people call themselves Mancunians. And in Glasgow, people are Glaswegians.

Lucky "the one for Moscow wasn't as interesting as those two" Wizard

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