# edinburgh **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925 "2007-03-14T19:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blueharpooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@blueharpooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueharpooner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/1 "2007-03-14T19:13:44Z")
What are people from edinburgh called,ie, people from glasgow are called glaswegians,so can anyone tell me what the people from edinburgh are called, please. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/2 "2007-03-14T19:15:27Z")
Edinburghers? (Though if “Edinburgh” is pronounced “Ed-in-boro”, how would Edinburgher get pronounced? “Ed-in-burrower”?) ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/3 "2007-03-14T19:18:09Z")
The people from every burg or burgh I’ve ever known were called ------burghers, Id guess its the same for Edinburgh Robardin beat me ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/4 "2007-03-14T19:19:09Z")
For what it’s worth, you’ve also stumped a colleague of mine who’s Irish and who’s worked extensively in London. When I asked him, “what do you call someone from Edinburgh”, he replied, “Scottish”. When I explained I meant Edinburgh specifically, i.e., New York -\> New Yorker, he gritted his teeth, broke out into a sweat and started Googling (and hasn’t finished yet). As far as he can tell they’re simply “residents of Edinburgh”. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/5 "2007-03-14T19:23:35Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] For what it’s worth, you’ve also stumped a colleague of mine who’s Irish and who’s worked extensively in London. When I asked him, “what do you call someone from Edinburgh”, he replied, “Scottish”. When I explained I meant Edinburgh specifically, i.e., New York -\> New Yorker, he gritted his teeth, broke out into a sweat and started Googling (and hasn’t finished yet). As far as he can tell they’re simply “residents of Edinburgh”. [/QUOTE] The offical site of Edinburgh ([www.edinburgh.org.uk](http://www.edinburgh.org.uk)) has links to famous “Edinburghers” ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/6 "2007-03-14T19:42:28Z")
I nominate “Edinbourgeois.” ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/7 "2007-03-14T20:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Though if “Edinburgh” is pronounced “Ed-in-boro” [/QUOTE] Nitpick: “Ed-in-bruh”, three syllables only. And while you can argue a case for ‘Edinburghers’, it’s not a commonplace term. It gets soundly beaten in a googlefight not only by Glaswegians, but also Aberdonians and Dundonians. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/8 "2007-03-14T21:08:58Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Though if “Edinburgh” is pronounced "Ed-in-boro…) [/QUOTE] It isn’t. To answer the OP, there’s no generally accepted term for us. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/9 "2007-03-14T21:12:09Z")
How about Edinburgians? ---
**Author:** ![tbdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@tbdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbdi)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/10 "2007-03-14T21:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Nitpick: “Ed-in-bruh” [/QUOTE] Then I guess they are Edinbrites ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/11 "2007-03-14T23:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Nitpick: “Ed-in-bruh”, three syllables only. [/QUOTE] Nitpick nitpick: “Em-bra”, two syllables only. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/12 "2007-03-14T23:34:41Z")
Weird. In all the time I’ve lived here, I’d never noticed that I’ve never heard the correct term for people who hail from Edinburgh, until now. ---
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/13 "2007-03-15T00:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Nitpick: “Ed-in-bruh”, three syllables only. And while you can argue a case for ‘Edinburghers’, it’s not a commonplace term. It gets soundly beaten in a googlefight not only by Glaswegians, but also Aberdonians and Dundonians. [/QUOTE] It may commonly get rolled into three syllables but i wouldn’t say it’s correct. I always pronounce it Ed-in-bur-ah. And yes the term Edinburgher is the only correct term i’m aware of. You’ll find that it is never ever used casually though, e.g. usually only in threads like this. My location is my cite, born n’ bred. ---
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/14 "2007-03-15T00:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=psychonaut] Nitpick nitpick: “Em-bra”, two syllables only. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Correct pronounciation… if you are Glaswegian…or in receipt of prescribed methadone ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/15 "2007-03-15T00:50:46Z")
[QUOTE=Bootis] The people from every burg or burgh I’ve ever known were called ------burghers, Id guess its the same for Edinburgh [/QUOTE] While I grew up in one, there aren’t _that_ many -burgh placenames in Scotland and I’ll echo the previous posters suggesting that there isn’t an obvious commonplace set of names for these cases. “-burger” will be understood, but it has that forced air of artificiality about it. Though “Edinbourgeois” is a coinage with a certain appeal to it. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edinburgh/395925/16 "2007-03-15T00:54:37Z")
Whatever it is you call them, it isn’t likely to be “Champions.” 😃