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I like the comment about "generalizing others' names
as having shortcomings".
We have that with the poor people from Iowa. When ever
there is a traffic jam and an Iowan is involved, the
comment is "See I-O-W-A: Idiots Out Wandering Around".
There are three of four similar comments made with the
words of their state.
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Idiots Out Wandering Around Oh, that's great!  We have to be content with "damn Hoosiers"! From this week's theme, I must deduce that the folks in Big Ugly, West Virginia surely are known as Big Ugly people...
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Back to Iowa: there is a town off the Interstate there
called "What Cheer". Really there is. People????
Cheerios, maybe??
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And another I-O-W-A: In Omaha Without Asking, there are others
but they are not very nice.
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This "gasconade' topic could really be interesting.
The people of Monaco are called Monagasques.Doesn't really
mean anything, except to them.
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales?????What do people there
call themselves?? Candy?
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The people of Monaco are called Monagasques.Doesn't really
mean anything, except to them.
Means something to me: the inhabitants of Monaco (the principality and the city). It's pretty straight forward (Frenchish) adjectival form of Monaco. The dialect spoken there as well as the rest of that eastern part of the French Riviera, is rather close to the Gallo-Italian dialects of Liguria across the Italian border. (In fact, the Monagasque royal family's name is Grimaldi and they originally were from Liguria and under the control of the Republic of Genoa.)
As for the folks from Wagga Wagga, I suppose if I had to coin a term I would go with Corvopolitanian (from the Modern Latin name for the city Corvopolitanus). Wagga and corvus mean 'crow' in Wiradjun and Latin respectively.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Curiosity satisfied. Thanks.
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Wagga and corvus mean 'crow' in Latin and Wiradjun respectively. Ummm...
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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moof wouldn't be Wiradjun, would it??
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moof wouldn't be WiradjunNope, it's the call of the infamous dogcow ( link). (Also, it's umm backwards with an f added for good measure ...) And, chiasmus is my middle name.)
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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales?????What do people there
call themselves?? Candy? Wagga Wagga (pronounced wog-a wog-a) was named by the Wiradjuri people and does mean crow.... as zmjezhd said. The Aboriginal way of making a 'plural' is to repeat a word, so Wagga Wagga translates to the place of many crows. The people from there don't like their town name to be shortened to just Wagga, but everyone does it. Also...can I say that the word Aboriginal is never said Aboriginals (with the 's'). There is no plural. We have one Aboriginal or many Aboriginal.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Very alert, there, Buffalo...
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There is here in the State of Washington, a similar
city: Walla Walla. Anyone care to give it a go??
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Walla Walla. Anyone care to give it a go??
The reduplication in this case represents a diminutive: Walla Walla means 'little river'.
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