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Media coverage
Title Why People From Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians Media name/outlet Atlas Obscura Media type Web Country/Territory United States Date 6/07/17 Description Here’s a very fun game to play: Take a list of cities with unusual demonyms—that’s the category of words describing either a person from a certain place, or a property of that place, like New Yorker or Italian—and ask people to guess what the demonym is. Here are some favorites I came up with, with the help of historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn, a lecturer at the University of Manchester. It’s tilted a bit in favor of the U.K. for two reasons. First is that Fonteyn lives and works there, and second is that the U.K. has some excellently weird ones. The answer key is at the bottom. URL www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demonyms-linguistics-nicknames Persons Lauren Fonteyn
Keywords
- linguistics
- demonyms