Delawarians or Delawarites

[venmaz]

OK, who remembers that Taxi episode?

Anyway, the question is put out there....
Is there any state or city in a state where the residents are called name-ites? Like Delawarites, Idahoites...
Theres gotta be one....

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Citizens of Raleigh, NC are called Raleighites.

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[Stella740pl]

A bunch of them.

Wisconsin - Wisconsinite

New York city alone will yield a few:

Gotham (NYC's nickname) - Gothamite
Manhattan - Manhattanite
Brooklyn - Brooklynite
Harlem - Harlemite

Now, not necessarily in USA, right? Then here:

Moskow (Muskovy) - Muskovite
Jerusalem - Jerusalemite
Yemen - Yemenite

And Bible alone will yield a whole load, don't even want to start there.

 

[PaulTEG]

Idaho - Idahoans - no ??
--Paul

cigless ...

 

[Stella740pl]

Oh, and one more to the NYC group:

Bronx - Bronxite.

PaulTEG:
Yes, you are right.

 

[SilentAiche]

I think our friends in the French capital made a wise decision not to adopt this suffix...

Tim

 

[Stella740pl]

SilentAiche,

When did they vote on how they will be named in foreign languages?

 

[SilentAiche]

Good point, Stella. It wouldn't be the first time I've been known to stretch a bit for a chuckle (okay, remote possibility of a chuckle).

Tim

 

[SantaMufasa]

I was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. I recall that we refer to people from our state as "Idahoes".

On a more serious note, someone from Yemen is a "Yemeni", not a "Yemenite".

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[Stella740pl]

On a more serious note, someone from Yemen is a "Yemeni", not a "Yemenite".

Probably, that's how they call themselves? It's a different story. Because in English dictionaries I've more often seen "Yemenite". Some of them, though, do give "Yemeni" as an alternative.

These 2 give both words:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Yemenite

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/y/y0016900.html

 

[GwydionM]

Consider Poles, Icelanders, Portugese, Spaniards, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Russians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Burmese, Cambodians, Aistralians, New Zelanders, Peruvians. The only rule is that there is no rule. Just a set of accumulated habits.

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An old man who lives in the UK

 

[GwydionM]

Also the Netherlands is sometimes referred to as Holland, but inhabited by the Dutch.

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An old man who lives in the UK

 

[Stella740pl]

GwydionM,

I didn't get what you are saying. Are all of them are called nameites? The original poster was not looking for a rule, but for names of places where residents are called nameites. (In English, that is.)

 

[SkipVought]

This is an oldie 'n' moldie...

What did Della ware, boys, what did Della ware?
She wore her New Jersey, boys, she wore her New Jersey Jersey.

How did Flori-die, boys
She died in Missouri

What did Io-way
She weighed a Washing-ton

What Ida-ho
She hoed her Mary-land

How did Wiscon-sin
She stole a New-bras-key

What did Tennis-see
She saw what Arkans-saw

Where has Orie-gon
She's taking Okla-home

What did Massa-chew
She chewed her Connecti-cud

What did Missi-sip
She sipped her Mini-soda

What did Ohi-owe
She owed her stated Texas

Why did Cali-fone
She called to say Hawaii



Skip,

_{[red]Be advised:[/red] The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac, lays awake all night wondering...
"Is there really a DOG?"}

 

[ESquared]

...not getting "stated Texas"
and Hawaii = how are you?

 

[SantaMufasa]

stated Texas" = "stated taxes".

 

[venmaz]

geez, what a can o' worms i opened up. Thanx for the giggles all...

 

[stackdump]

I heard (from a dutchman) that the Netherlands is the correct name for what most people call Holland. Apparently Holland was actually a smaller part of The Netherlands.

But out of interest, why are our friends in the Netherlands called Dutch? I thought they would be Netherlanders.

I guess if people from Poland are called Poles, what would that make people from Holland? (Is that the reason they prefer Dutch?).

Is the Netherlands the only country where (in English) the inhabitants are not actually named with a direct derivation of their countries name?

 

[SilentAiche]

Yo Stackdump,

We Americans, on occasion, are called "Yanks."

Tim

 

[SantaMufasa]

Yes, Tim, in the same way that Germans were called "Krauts" and British were called, "Limeys"...

And I wish that we who live in the U.S. could come up with a better self-appellation than "Americans". The population of the U.S. is 295.6 million; The population of "America" is the total of all inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere. "American" is a remarkably imprecise label.

Mufasa
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