D'ou Etes-Vous?

Authors

Don Laycock

Abstract

There are only a few possiblilties for naming the inhabitants of places in the United States: New Yorker, Chicagoan, Philadelphian, Bostionian, Scrantonite. There may be more exotic forms for those from towns with French or Spanish names, but the possibilities fall far short of even Britain, where Oxonians come from Oxford, Cantabrigians from Cambridge, Liverpudlians from Liverpool, and Mancunians from Manchester. In my home town of Newcastle in New South Wales, we used to pride ourselves on our knowledge of Latin, calling ourselves Novocastrians.

Recommended Citation

Laycock, Don (1986) "D'ou Etes-Vous?," Word Ways: Vol. 19 : Iss. 2 , Article 12.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol19/iss2/12