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Demonyms
May 26, 2012 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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Everyone knows New Yorkers and Angelenos, but what do you call someone from Sheboygan, Wisconsin? Demonyms, or the names for people from a given place, can get pretty complicated, but there are seven rules as drawn by George Stewart, and Paul Dickson's book Labels for Locals has lots of other answers. This is part of a complete episode.
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