Demonym Puns

Klamath Fallsian? K-Faller? Klamathite?

What are you people called?

ETA: ha. FR though, does anybody actually know?

My wife and I are new in town and have been wondering about this. Is there a word for a citizen of Corvallis? "Corvallisian" is an awkward mouthful and "Corvallian" is somewhat unsatisfying because it leaves out the S. "Corvallisters," maybe?

Edit: And the consensus is that the correct term is Corvallisites, which definitely has a certain crispness to it. I'm also fond of Corvaliens (haha) and Corvids, particularly because the latter reminds me of some of my favorite animal-related demonyms (Michiganders, Bellinghamsters). (Corvids, of course, are crows.) But Corvallisites it is! Thanks for the info, everyone.

Milwaukeeans, Madisonians, Wisconsinites

Demonym: a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.

Green Bayer? Green Bayite? Green Bayan?

Feel free to discuss other weird Wisconsin examples.

Hi there. First of all, I am a teacher from Brazil (not an English teacher, I teach Geography and History), and I hope my English isn't too bad. Also, my intention with this post is NOT political, it's to help me with education.

I've made some researches in the last days about how, in English, I could refer to people from the USA and from America (Continent), specially on the same context. While in Portuguese we have the term "estadunidense" to people from the USA, it feels very awkward to talk about Geography or American (again, the continent) History in English.

In Portuguese it's the simple matter of using "americano" (that would be "american") to talk about the countries/people from America, and "estadunidense" to people/things from the USA. Is there any way to make it clear when talking in English?

Thank you, and sorry if the formatting of the text is off, I am writing on my phone.

It's me again, with another question for my WIP science-fiction novel.

The novel features a number of nations, some of which bear the name of the species that founded them (for example, my world has a nation called the Mostan Empire and a species called Mostans). However the question I want to ask is that is there a way to differentiate an alien race from the citizens of a nation that shares said species' name/demonym - say, for example, distinguishing between Mostans in the sense that they are members of the Mostan species, and Mostans in the sense that they are nationals of the Mostan Empire even though they are not of the Mostan species?

I would like to hear your thoughts and advice.

If you travel south away from Luzon, you'll notice a pattern of demonyms that are not like the ones used in most of Luzon which are usually Spanish based. These names tend to go by name of place + (a)non. Examples would be Ormocanon (Ormoc City), Surigaonon (both Surigao provinces), Romblomanon (Romblon), Butuanon (Butuan) etc. Even places like Cebu and Bohol where the official demonyms are the Spanish-based ones (Cebuano and Boholano) have their own alternate forms that follows this pattern as well (Sugbuanon and Bol-anon respectively). Also the Province of Bukidnon is pretty self-explanatory on what it means (bukid means mountain).

These are also genderless by default. No such thing as Butuanan for example. Using this pattern, a person from the Philippines would be Pilipinasnon. I'm not really sure on the rules here, but you can take a look a this wiki page to see how it works. Note that these are only for provinces. Towns and cities also use this pattern as well.

People from Dublin are obviously Dubs or Dubliners, and people from Galway are Galwegian, but what about the rest of the country?

This got posted before and ended up becoming a piss-take, don't mind if it happens again but I'd be genuinely curious what the other counties are (Donegallians?).

I'm talking about surnames like (all of them are real people):

• (Dutch or Flemish) Bart Hollanders (Hollanders = from Holland)
• (Italian) Elisabetta Catalano (Catalano = from Catalonia)
• (Catalan) Mateu Alemany (Alemany = from Germany)

Edit. It's been nice to learn that Wallace means Welsh and Vlach meant any Romance speaker.

According to Wikipedia the demonym for Salt Lake City is "Salt Laker".

Born and raised here and I've NEVER heard this before.

Is this accurate? If not, what is our collective noun?

officer i can assure you i had no sinister intentions for the large amounts of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer 34-0-0, Nitromethane, and Denatured Ethyl Alcohol in my home

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I can't decide on which demonym I can use for the undead country of Yomi, so I'm putting up a poll here.

As such, if you have any suggestions then don't mind putting them in the comments.

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I understand that the etymology is from Italian/Latin, I'm asking why the suffix is so common for East Asian countries and virtually absent for any other place

We know that Kerbin's demonym is Kerbal, and the Mun's is Munar, but what about other worlds?

My ideas:

Moho - Mohoan

Eve - Evan

Gilly - Gillian

Minmus - Minmal

Duna - Dunan

Ike - Ikean

Jool - Joolian? Joolan? Joolar? not sure

Laythe - Laythean

Eeloo - Eelooan

Ignoring some of Jool's moons because I can't remember their names

In the novel I've been working on, the prominent religion of the setting is a faith called the Church of the Everyday Saints. They're an atheistic religion that focus primarily on their large and continuously-growing canon of saints. I've been calling them Saints followers/Saints worshippers in the book, but I want something a little more streamlined. I've been playing around with also calling them Bouchardists (After Etienne Bouchard, a radicalist faith leader from the past) but that one seems a little iffy.

Hey this is a weird question and I’m sorry if it’s not appropriate for this sub. But one of my best friends is a Purdue alum and is from Indiana. But she eschews the “Hoosier” demonym because IU students and alum are Hoosiers.

Now the OED states that anyone from Indiana is a Hoosier, so my question is if there is an alternative demonym for someone from Indiana.

I thought this would be an appropriate place to ask because no one hates IU or being associated with IU more than you guys.

Ps. My deepest condolences about the closing of the Neon Cactus

For example, suppose someone is from California. Do they consider themselves more Californian or more American? Going off of that, how distinct are regional cultures?

Let’s say a White person got citizenship in Japan or China, could they call themselves Chinese? (Obviously not referring to race)

First if all,my bad if this question has been asked before because I don't remember.And second I'm talking about nicknames that has been part of the identity of the people in any country,not slur nor derogatory names.

Anyways,our nicknames in Puerto Rico are boricuas and borincanos,but boricuas is the most popular.

Alright, I've been trying to think of this for a while. In my world, a rag-tag group of humans and various alien species travel to the Andromeda galaxy using a wormhole.

The demonym I use for the alien races and species of the Andromeda galaxy are the "Andromedeans". But when trying to come up with the demonym for the races of our galaxy, I ran into trouble. "Milky Wayians/Wayans" is about the worst name I ever heard, so I was wondering: Do any of you guys have a better idea.

People from Mondstadt are called Mondstadters in a quest for the Lantern Rite event. Is there ever a demonym used for the Liyue people? Liyuean? Liyuese?

I always get it confused, but maybe it’s down to individual preferrence. What is your preferred demonym for your city?

Hi!

I have a little, not that serious question pertaining to the formation of Ancient Greek demonyms. I'm currently trying to figure out what the appropriate demonym for a male citizen of the (Roman) city of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (modern-day Cologne in Germany). Now, Ptolemy's Geography spells the city's name as simply Ἀγριππινηνσίς, with the variants Ἀγριππινηηνσῆς (sic!) and Ἀγριππινικώσις (Ptolemy, Geography II 9, 15).

The city name is obviously derivated from the Roman demonym/adjective nominative singular "Agripinnensis", "pertaining to Agrippina (?)", whose name is rendered as Ἀγριππῖνα, Ἀγριππίνης by Cassius Dio (Book LXI).

So, starting with the form Ἀγριππινηνσίς, what would be the most "classical" option for an adjective or noun denoting a citizen of that πόλις?

Of course, I assume that you could also form a demonym using the (modern Greek) noun Κολωνία ...

Thank you very much in advance for your help and your insights!

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Demans? Demians? Idk English is not my first language lol

I need the demonym for an ongoing art but have no idea what to write.

I think it's always a mouthful typing/saying "Reconstructionist" so maybe we need a demonym that's short and sweet?

Please put your options if you have any in the comments!

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I know that for the Danubian Federation, there is an overarching demonym for all living in the country, “Danubians”. But, for a scenario where the United States of Greater Austria forms, what would be the demonym for those living in the USGA? I’m not sure if it would be Austrian, since the Austrians are only one group in the country, and I don’t think the other minorities would like to be referred to as Austrian. I’d like to hear your thoughts!