# From Edinburgh - are you Edinburghian? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750 "2001-10-26T11:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theretsof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/1 "2001-10-26T11:40:37Z")
Seriously, I don’t know. My friend from Glasgow swears she’s Glaswegian, which I can buy, but Edinburgh? Note, I’m not asking what someone fron Edinburgh calls someone from Glasgow 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Izzardesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@Izzardesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzardesque)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/2 "2001-10-26T11:50:01Z")
I think they would be a Edinburgher… don’t really know tho. ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/3 "2001-10-26T11:52:02Z")
Yup, agree with Izzardesque. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/4 "2001-10-26T11:54:43Z")
I’ve always heard Edinburgher, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/5 "2001-10-26T11:55:40Z")
I lived there for four years and I honestly cannot remember. Edinburgher sounds about right, though. ---
**Author:** ![theretsof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/6 "2001-10-26T11:57:09Z")
not in [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com), but Glaswegian is… Glas·we·gian (gls-wjn, glz-) adj. Of or relating to Glasgow, Scotland. n. A native or resident of Glasgow, Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![Niobium\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/7 "2001-10-26T12:26:59Z")
i’m from Edinburgh and nobody says Edinburgher. trust me. there isnt a word for us. ---
**Author:** ![Izzardesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@Izzardesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzardesque)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/8 "2001-10-26T12:30:46Z")
I find it quite funny that someone from Hamburg IS called a Hamburger 🙂 The reason I said it would be Edinburgher is because a burgher is a resident of a burgh or borough. So technically, I think I am correct but no-one to my knowledge uses it ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/9 "2001-10-26T12:43:29Z")
Like **Crusoe** , I spent four years in Edinburgh, and don’t have a clue what the answer is. Hmmm. Is there some Latinate term which exists, but is never used? You know, like Geordies are technically “Novocastrians”? ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/10 "2001-10-26T12:45:00Z")
I tend to agree with **Niobium Knight**. Given the soft Scottish pronunciation of the ‘burgh’ bit in ‘Edinburgh’, ‘Edinburgher’ would be particularly awkward to say - it would almost have to be pronounced as Edinbur-er-er. None of the options seem as easy or as obvious as ‘someone from Edinburgh’. ---
**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/11 "2001-10-26T13:15:15Z")
know people from Edenburgh, they call themselves Edenburgers. Maybe they’re just pulling my leg. If, by some miracle, that is wronf, and there is no real name for people from Edenburgh( doubtfull) i say you adopt Edenburgher. -Qis ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/12 "2001-10-26T14:08:47Z")
Edinburgher, pronounced Edinbruh-her. It doesn’t get used much, because it’s such an ugly word. Which is ok, as no-one has much worth saying about people from Edinburgh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/13 "2001-10-26T14:26:56Z")
When I worked in Port Appin, Scotland, (west coast, between Oban and Ft. William), I asked the question to some of the Scottish employees, and they did tell me “Edinburgher.” I had not thought of asking that question during my stay in Edinburgh, however, so I don’t know what they call themselves there. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/14 "2001-10-26T15:10:47Z")
I once had the occasion to call a friend of mine originally from Belfast “a wanker” (he had said something stupid). A Glaswegian sitting nearby then asked me: “Why do you call him a wanker? He’s not from the East coast of Scotland” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/15 "2001-10-26T15:47:52Z")
A “Pan-Loafer?” An “Auld Reekian?” ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/16 "2001-10-26T16:51:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rodd Hill \* > \*\*A “Pan-Loafer?” > An “Auld Reekian?” \*\* LOL. A “you’ll-have-had-your-tea-er”. Things I (a Glaswegian) have been called by one particularly obnoxious Edinburgher: soap-dodger; work-shy; scrounger. Sigh…when there are only two humans left in the universe, they’ll no doubt think up nasty and pointless names for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/17 "2001-10-27T10:25:44Z")
I ran into my Glaswegian friend, mentioned above, yesterday and asked him (my question might have been _slighly_ leading) what he would call someone from Edinburgh and he promptly answered **eedjit**. ---
**Author:** ![Niobium\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/18 "2001-10-27T11:16:45Z")
us in Edinburgh call Glaswegians “weegie cunts” my dad tells me it is Edinburger but it gets used so little it’s not worth bothering about. ---
**Author:** ![ali0r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@ali0r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ali0r)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/19 "2001-10-27T11:59:40Z")
It would seem to me that Rodd Hill would be the one with an accurate answer… ‘An “Auld Reekian?”’…coming from Edinburgh myself and being a _partial_ football (soccer) fan…the term “Auld Reekian” is one that can be found in the song of one of the local football teams, Hearts. Ummm, thats about all I Know :)… ---
**Author:** ![Niobium\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750/20 "2001-10-28T04:41:45Z")
“and Auld Reekie supports them with pride” sorry but Auld Reekie is Edinburgh, not the people in Edinburgh and i have NEVER heard anyone called an Auld Reekien. it’s Edinburger, trust me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-edinburgh-are-you-edinburghian/89750.md?page=2)