And why exactly did you feel obliged to share this particular Begbie-esque witticism with us? It makes you sound really humourless.
I feel that if a Glasgowian is called a Glaswegian, then an Edinburghian would be called an Edinwegian. Now a further question, since that this one is settled, what is a person from Linlithgow called? A Linlithwegian? There are probably a lot of Scottish place names ending in gow; do they all go to weg? I think it is called suppletism in grammar when a completely different word is used for some grammatical effect, as in the irregularity of the forms of to be in all languages: am,is,are,was,were,be,been,being, and only the last three seem to have the same root. The others are suppletisms. Other examples include comparisons and superlatives of irregular adjectives, as in good, better, best instead of good, gooder, goodest as with high, higher, highest.
why not? sorry i sound humourless, but it’s true. 
“Dunedin-ites”
my favourite is Skegness - Skegs
And now your disingenuousness is really starting to annoy me. The OP said “Note, I’m not asking what someone fron Edinburgh calls someone from Glasgow”, so why, in GQ (which is for factual questions), did you do exactly the opposite, except to drop in this gratuitous insult?
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Seconded. Could we close this thread please? The question has been answered.
Wait, I still don’t have a reply on whether those from Linlithgow are called Linlithwegians! Notice how those from Norway are called Norwegians, so I think we have something here about the suppletism of way to weg and gow to weg.
If you are from Sweden or Denmark you are just Swedish or Denmarkish whoops I mean Danish: ah! Here we have another oddity. This is mark goes to ish! Now are there any other ones where mark goes to ish? Of course so many things go to ish that it might be that nothing interesting would be revealed if we could think of other marks that go to ish…
I don’t think there ARE ‘people living in…’ names for everyone. I live near Derby at the moment and there isn’t a name for people from Derby.
That said, people from Swansea are called Jacks, which has absolutely nothing to do with the name.
So, actually, the overall answer, is probably that there isn’t one
some of you take this a bit seriously dont you? i gave my fair share or info in this thread. just cos i dropped in a little “OT” bit some of you get all upset :wally:
Ooh! Place name insults! Can I play?
How about:
Baltimoron
Chicagorilla
You don’t give up, do you? This is just as disingenuous as your last post. How would you feel if someone called you a “cunt”? IMHO there isn’t a worse linguistic insult in the English language. Maybe you know different…oh no wait a minute, if you do, don’t bother to enlighten me.
I think GQ is the wrong forum for you. Why don’t you try The Pit or MPSIMS instead? (Oh, I wish there was a “Troll!” smiley as well as a “Putz!” one)
Now now kids. Look at the post which immediately preceded that infamous one by Niobium - s/he didn’t start the insults.
I take more issue with this set of Niobium quotes:
Followed later on by:
{FWIW, the person-from-Edinburgh I, uhhhhh, spent a good bit of time with 
last weekend goes with the “there isn’t a name for us” option.)
Well, wait no more for, astonishing though it might seem, I come from Linlithgow (birth-place not only of myself but also of Mary Queen of Scots - co-incidence?). Why, might I ask, did you pick the name of my esteemed home town? Not that I mind, it’s just freaky.
Anyhow, the answer to your question is that someone from Linlithgow is called, of all things, “A Black Bitch.”
No, really. Anyone born there (I was technically born in the hospital in Edinburgh, so I’m not sure if that counts) has the right, seldom taken up these days, to be known as a black bitch in reference to the town mascot. You can work out what the mascot is yourself. There’s some heart-moving story about the dog ferrying food out to her master while he was imprisoned on an island on Linlithgow Loch, thus demonstrating loyalty and affection and yadayada.
In practice, there isn’t really a term, but that’s OK, there isn’t a term for people from Bathgate, Uphall, Livingston etc. Best bet, if you must try to find a dialect idiom, is to use the phrase, “He’s frae Lithgae” which is the popular contraction of the name.
So, now you know.
Insulting the residents of various cities will not be tolerated in General Questions. I hope the OP’s question has been answered to his satisfaction, because this thread is closed.
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