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Given how prone to the gutter this board is, we wouldn't be able to see the stars.
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Haven't you two ever heard the expression, "Her head may be in the stars, but her feet are firmly planted in the gutter"? 
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>I think Wykehamists is the word for people who went to the school
Quite correct - named after a clerical gentleman of that name. He was, I believe, a headmaster of some repute. (He left before my day)
A resident of the town, rather than the school would be called, I suppose, a Wincastrian. "Caster" and "Chester" are interchangeable, meaning "castle"- usually denotes a town where there was a Roman fort in the good old days of the Empire.
However, people from Newcastle are not New castrians - they are Geordies.
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>> people from Newcastle are not New castriansOld or New--"castrian" sounds painful. 
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> Old or New--"castrian" sounds painful
When I moved from Northampton to Lancaster, I changed from being a "Northamptonian" (there we go again, - why not "Northamptonan"? I guess because it doesn't roll off the tongue so easily.) to become a "Lancastrian." The only pain I remember was that associated with removal from the scenes to which one had become accustomed to those less familiar. Certainly, it has not caused me to sing alto, which, given my voice, is probably just as well ---
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