So I'm guessing most other countries, if not all, have colloquialisms for people from other regions within that country. In England we have: -
Brummies - Birmingham
Scousers - Liverpool
Cockneys - London
Geordies - Newcastle
Mackam - Sunderland
What terms of endearment do you have for your fellow country men?
Originally posted by lolofWell we have more official words for people from the various regions that is structured such as: -
I'm not sure that we have words like that for various regions. We name people from:
Stockholm - stockholmare
Göteborg - göteborgare
Malmö - malmöiter
Skåne - skåningar
Norrland - norrlänningar
Gotland - gotlänningar
etc
Do we use other words, RWBob?
Newcaledonian - Newcastle
Mancunian - Manchester
Liverpudlian - Liverpool
etc
But we also have the afore mentioned ones which are less formal and can be used perhaps in a derogatory context. Similar to the Scots calling the English Sasanachs. It can be a term of endearment or slight insult. They are usually turned into insults by following with a four letter word ending in 'T'. 🙂
Originally posted by Sicilian SausageWell, that really sounds like an insult to me, if I have the right word in mind...
Well we have more official words for people from the various regions that is structured such as: -
Newcaledonian - Newcastle
Mancunian - Manchester
Liverpudlian - Liverpool
etc
But we also have the afore mentioned ones which are less formal and can be used perhaps in a derogatory context. Similar to the Scots calling the English Sasanachs ...[text shortened]... t. They are usually turned into insults by following with a four letter word ending in 'T'. 🙂
Originally posted by lolofStockholm - 08's (Stockholm areacode)
I'm not sure that we have words like that for various regions. We name people from:
Stockholm - stockholmare
Göteborg - göteborgare
Malmö - malmöiter
Skåne - skåningar
Norrland - norrlänningar
Gotland - gotlänningar
etc
Do we use other words, RWBob?
Gotland - gutar
Skåne (Scania) - half danes, north germans
Originally posted by HandyAndyAH so they are called 'demonyms'. All good stuff. 🙂
A few U.S. demonyms:
Wisconsin... Cheesehead
Indiana... Hoosier
Oklahoma... Okie
Iowa... Hawkeye
Ohio... Buckeye
Connecticut... Nutmegger
Nebraska... Cornhusker
Georgia... Cracker
Kansas... Grasshopper
Rhode Island... Swamp Yankee
A few more Aussie ones:
Queensland - cane toad
NSW - cockroach (love that one!)
Victoria - mexican (because we're "south of the border" for Qld and NSW folk)
WA - sandgroper
poor old Taswegians (Tasmanians) don't have a really exotic label, although we treat them like kiwis (New Zealanders) and make jokes about inbreeding and sheep.
Australians tend to call themselves Aussies, although our Greek and Italian immigrants labelled the locally-born population Skips after the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo came out.
