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Someone from Texas is a Texan. Someone from New York is a New Yorker. Someone from from Glasgow is a Glaswegian. Each of these is a one-word designation for a person's geographical origin or current residence. Is there a word-- a noun--that means such one-word designations?


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Welcome, Co1827. I sure hope you feel like explaining your
name! I have this tickling and tugging at the edges of my
memory that makes me think I used to know the significance.

Anyway--I just read this week's theme--p'raps your word will appear courtesy of Anu.


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sorry to pull this off course a little.
why are people from canada canadians?
what's wrong with canadans?


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<what's wrong with canadans?>

.....that they don't come from Canadia, as would be logical?


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If people from Manchester are Mancunians what are people from Winchester called?


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>>what are people from Winchester called?

Winstons ?




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I've also wondered why things relating to a governor are called gubernatorial rather than governorial. They're both weird sounding words.


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Wykehamists. Something to do with some bloke called Wykeham. Can't remember now, no doubt someone will know.


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I think Wykehamists is the word for people who went to the school rather than people who live there. Similarly I don't think you would refer to someone who lives in Eton as an Etonian.

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In reply to:

why things relating to a governor are called gubernatorial


They both come from the Latin gubernare (meaning govern would you believe) but by different routes. For more details see: http://www.word-detective.com/061300.html#gubernatorial

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