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today's word from Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English calendar©
is Connecticutensian, an inhabitant of Connecticut [late 1700s].
(and, he suggests, Connecticuties is reserved for pretty girls. : )
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Huh--what were the people in Massachusetts called, then?
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Massachusettser?
Massachusetter??
Massachusettean?!
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Acc'g. to your example, they'd have been Massachusettsensians!
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with all due respect to any Massachusettians, I have heard the moniker Massholes...
:¬ p
formerly known as etaoin...
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Connecticutensian
The common way to form an adjective from a place-name in Medieval Latin was to a suffix -ensis to the root. For example, Berkeleiensis from Berkeley. So, it's something that a educated person in the 18th century would've known about and possibly chuckled over as the name in question is from a Native American language and the resulting adjectival form is macaronic.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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