# From Georgia=Georgian. What are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820 "2007-01-05T15:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/81 "2007-01-06T07:07:19Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Just temporarily in the US, and originally from New South Wales, so New South Welshman (or in oldfashioned slang, Cornstalk). Born in Sydney, so Sydneyite. Mostly lived in Newcastle, so Novocastrian [/QUOTE] D’you know, up here in Queensland, someone from Sydney is (politley) called a Sydneysider. I have never heard Sydneyite. of course, it’s Brisbanite, which sounds dumb. Briswegian is much better. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/82 "2007-01-06T07:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=qwest] I like mine. I live in Nunavut. I am Nunavummiut. [/QUOTE] Correct me if I’m wrong, but since there’s just one of you, aren’t you a Nunavummiuq? ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/83 "2007-01-06T07:58:16Z")
Honestly, I didn’t know the term until I googled it earlier. In my haste, I chose the plural. I stand corrected. Still a cool word. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/84 "2007-01-06T10:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **tomndebb** > Michiganders actually were sometimes called Michiganians (much like Texians) several years before statehood, but Michigander won out until Governor Silly Billy Milli ken decided to restore the effete “Michiganian” as the official term around 1980 [QUOTE=ZenBeam] I looked, but couldn’t find support for any of the bolded part online. Do you have a cite for Michigander being more popular prior to 1980, for Michiganian being the official term, or for Governor Milliken being responsible for making it so? [/quote] In a 1976 poll conducted by Prof. George Javor of Northern Michigan U. asking what they like to call themselves, 90% voted for Michigander. 7% for Michiganian. There was a piece of legislation introduced into the MI House in 1979 by Casmer Ogonowski. It actually got a vote 50-32 to use Michiganian as the Official term. I haven’t found a cite yet as to whether it ever made it through the Senate and/or to then Gov. Milliken. All my info comes from newspaper stories at the time over at Newspaperarchive(pay site). ---
**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:** [January 6, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/85 "2007-01-06T11:05:11Z")
Wiganer / Pie Eater ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/86 "2007-01-06T16:01:43Z")
Calgarian, Albertan, Canadian. NWT-er or Northerner from when I lived in the Northwest Territories. Currently Baltimoreon Marylander - although I call my husband a Baltimoron. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/87 "2007-01-06T17:22:40Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] In a 1976 poll conducted by Prof. George Javor of Northern Michigan U. asking what they like to call themselves, 90% voted for Michigander. 7% for Michiganian. There was a piece of legislation introduced into the MI House in 1979 by Casmer Ogonowski. It actually got a vote 50-32 to use Michiganian as the Official term. I haven’t found a cite yet as to whether it ever made it through the Senate and/or to then Gov. Milliken. [/QUOTE] Thanks, Sam. My experience was that growing up in Michigan, I was in my very late 20s before I even heard the word Michiganian for the first time. (Michigander was the only name for a resident throughout my life to that time.) And I associated it with a campaign by Bill Milliken to select a “better” word of state residents. Milliken may not have actually initiated the movement, but he was certainly an advocate and it was in the 1979 - 1980 period when he set a directive that anything emanating from the governor’s office of state agencies reporting to the executive would use Michiganian. The O.E.D. cites Michiganian to 1813 and 1837, but notes Michigander from 1848, 1865, 1897, and 1952. (I have the mid-1980s update of the O.E.D. that does not yet capture the 1979 activity.) That seems to be another pretty good indication that Michigander was more prevalent up until 1980. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/88 "2007-01-06T23:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] The O.E.D. cites Michiganian to 1813 and 1837, but notes Michigander from 1848, 1865, 1897, and 1952. (I have the mid-1980s update of the O.E.D. that does not yet capture the 1979 activity.) That seems to be another pretty good indication that Michigander was more prevalent up until 1980. [/QUOTE] Using Newspaperarchive’s electronic database, and searching for those two terms 1759-1980, I get 25 hits for _Michiganian_ and 389 hits for _Michigander_. Of course, not all hits come from Michigan newspapers. But I’d doubt if the results would be much different if they did. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/89 "2007-01-07T00:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=mamboman] D’you know, up here in Queensland, someone from Sydney is (politley) called a Sydneysider. I have never heard Sydneyite. of course, it’s Brisbanite, which sounds dumb. Briswegian is much better. [/QUOTE] Yes, Sydneysider might be more common than Sydneyite, but I have heard both. Amd I’ve heard the Bananabenders’ capital referred to as Brisvegas – but that might be another story. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/90 "2007-01-07T01:14:43Z")
> [@](#): > > For other Texas cities, I think it’s Houstonite, San Antonian, but I’m not sure about Dallas People from Houston are Houstonians. > [@](#): > > Isn’t Texans just the plural of Texan. Someone wouldn’t say “I am a Texans” would they? I think he meant one has to drop the final “s” in “Texas” to get both “Texian” and “Texan”. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/91 "2007-01-07T03:28:16Z")
There’s a town outside of Pittsburgh called Mars. I was very disappointed to find out that the residents don’t call themselves “Martians.” I think they say “Marsians” (mars-ee-ans) or some such. I always liked the “Liverpudlian” thing, so since I live in Westfield, I call myself a “Westfudlian.” I guess everybody else says “Westfielder.” Bah. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/92 "2007-01-07T03:47:40Z")
I’m a Portlander, an Oregonian, and an Earthling. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/93 "2007-01-07T05:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=qwest] I like mine. I live in Nunavut. I am Nunavummiut. [/QUOTE] Sould you allow me a brief flailing moment of “that is so cool”? [/random hijack] I’m Paphian by birth, according to some legends, but Olympian and Kytherian mostly these days. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/94 "2007-01-07T05:50:50Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] NWT-er or Northerner from when I lived in the Northwest Territories. [/QUOTE] If you’re wondering, in French you’d be a _Ténoise_, from T.N.-O. I rather like that one (I’m stuck with _Néo-brunswickois_). ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/95 "2007-01-07T06:10:08Z")
I never said anything but Michigander,very rarely hear Michiganian. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/96 "2007-01-07T06:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Illinois uses Illinoian (again dropping the “s”), although the Peoria newspaper is called the Illinoisan (no idea how it is pronounced). [/QUOTE] Well I’ve never liked either version. In one, I’m sick and irritating (shut up), and the other pushes my “Illinoise” button. But, dammit, I \*am \*a Chicagoan! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![stevenjklein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@stevenjklein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stevenjklein)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/97 "2010-07-15T06:18:18Z")
I’m a Californian by birth; for a while I lived in Los Angeles, where the denizens are known as Angelenos. I currently reside in Michigan; I think the best word to describe people who live here is Meshuggener. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/98 "2010-07-15T06:23:49Z")
Hello and welcome. Just to let you know, the board prefers people to start up new threads rather than revive old threads like this. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/99 "2010-07-15T06:37:23Z")
Hadn’t realized it was a bit zombie’d… _goes off in search of her brain and a cuppa_ ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/100 "2010-07-15T14:27:12Z")
Responding to zombie just to clear something up… then I’ll be okay with seeing it shut down. > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > When I was in Indianapolis they called themselves Indianapol **ans** I’m a lifelong Indianapolis resident, and have _never_ heard this term. We use Indianapolitan or Nap-Towner, in the fleetingly rare moments when one needs to identify as a citizen of a city. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=6)