Demonyms

[jurph]

A Demonym is a name for the people from a place. If you're from Glasgow, you're Glaswegian. If you're from Delaware, you're Delawarean. If you're from Massachussetts, you're a Bay Stater. Being from Indiana makes you a Hoosier, and so on.

So if you're from Baltimore, are you a:

• Baltimorean?
  
• Baltimoron?
  
• Hon?
  
• Charm Citizen?
  
• B'liever?
  

Comments

[7ghent]

Albuquerque has the same problem.

[jurph]

Q-Q's?
Albatross?
Quirks?
Albuquerkian?
Albuquerquish?
Green Chilean?
Novomex?

You're right, it's terrible.

[wonkodsane]

But everyone who lives in NoVA says Baltimore is a hole.

Also, Albuquerque is a hole.

[jurph]

Just driving through northern Virginia makes me begin to get angry. It's a terrifying hive of conformity, pristine like a freshly-scraped-and-bleached cranium. I've got friends there, though, and if I believed in a God I would pray for them every day.

Besides, Baltimore's got crabs.
...and genital herpes!

[unprotoize]

here here!

[wonkodsane]

I ♥ crabs!

[zophos]

I'm partial to Baltimoron. I have nothing against people there, I just thought it was funny.

I call people from here Durhammers.

[vees]

Baltimoron all the way.

[wonkodsane]

This is a very real concern. There is a Guambat restaurateur near us. We love the place, but the lack of an elegant term to describe something from Guam makes it hard to tell people about it.

[jurph]

I was in the service with a guy from Guam, and every time he said the word "Guamanian" to describe his culture, the fighter pilot in our class giggled.