# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/121 "2010-07-17T09:19:12Z")
What would you call someone from Lahore? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/122 "2010-07-17T09:29:03Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Don’t call us Yankees. We don’t like it much better than southerners like being called Rednecks. Those aren’t equivalent terms. There are many rednecks who are not Southerners. There are many Southerners who are not rednecks. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/123 "2010-07-17T10:07:12Z")
I’m a born and bred Mancunian, and I’m happy with that label, if I’m going to have to wear at least one. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/124 "2010-07-17T10:12:24Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > On the other hand, the (silent) final “s” in Arkansas gets left behind for Arkansawyer (but simply dropped by those who prefer Arkansan). (Sawyer probably made sense when more people actually practiced that trade.) I’m an Arkansan. I’ve never heard of Arkansawyer, but I like that better. It just uses the old respelling of Arkansaw, and keeps the stress the same as the root word, so you don’t get people thinking it’s pronounced Ar-Kansas. Incidentally, as of 10 years ago, there was apparently still a law on the books that forbade mispronouncing the name of the state. Or, at least, according to a silly laws book I read (and we know how accurate those are.) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/125 "2010-07-17T10:12:48Z")
> [@mittu](#): > > I’m from Leeds and i’m called a loiner, the reasons for which aren’t clear but there are some theories: > Personally I think it’s because we look great in loincloths. Us Mancunians have another name for you, related to the male Loiner’s preferred form of sexual activity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/126 "2010-07-17T10:30:15Z")
Protip: It’s easier to shag a sheep if you are wearing a loin-cloth. 😉 Allegedly. ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/127 "2010-07-17T10:47:00Z")
I’m from Galway, Ireland. So I’m a Galwegian. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/128 "2010-07-17T11:04:08Z")
I am a Newfoundlander (New fun LAND er, not New FOUND lund er, damned Ontarians). Or a Newfie, but be careful how you say that one, or I may just have to kick your arse. Or a Newf. (‘A Newf?’ ‘I got better!’) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/129 "2010-07-17T15:58:37Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > I’m a born and bred Mancunian, and I’m happy with that label, if I’m going to have to wear at least one. I keep thinking Mancunian would be a good name for a small fuzzy animal, likely with rounded ears. This deeply annoys my friend’s boyfriend, who is Mancunian! ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/130 "2010-07-17T16:13:21Z")
> [@brk913](#): > > Connecticut checking in…here we are Connecticutions…I too have heard our neighbors to the north are Massholes (no offense, I didn’t make it up)… I live in Connecticut, but generally consider myself to be a displaced Texan. 🙂 Anyway, “Connecticutian” sounds a bit odd (much less “Connecticution” _(sic)_, which sounds like it would rhyme with “allocution”). I’ve heard “[nutmegger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmegger)” much more frequently. No question those to the north of us are “Massholes,” but generally just the ones you run into (no pun intended) on the highway. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/131 "2010-07-17T16:36:28Z")
Californian. As a female from the Los Angeles vicinity, I am properly an Angelena. However, that sounds like a name, so I generally use Angeleno. I like that we’re the only U.S. place-people-name that comes directly from a non-English language (that I know of!) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/132 "2010-07-17T16:55:42Z")
People not from South Carolina refer to people from South Carolina as South Carolinians. Natives of South Carolina (a good many of us, anyway) refer to ourselves as Sandlappers. ---
**Author:** ![kim\_jung\_il](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kim\_jung\_il](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kim_jung_il)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/133 "2010-07-17T18:30:54Z")
I’m from Glasgow, so I am a Glaswegian, or “weegie” for short. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/134 "2010-07-17T20:11:48Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Don’t call us Yankees. We don’t like it much better than southerners like being called Rednecks. Speak for yourself. :o ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/135 "2010-07-19T11:11:14Z")
I’m from Tucson. I’m a Too Stoned-an. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/136 "2010-07-20T12:55:23Z")
NC native = North Carolinian. Prefer not to be called a Tarheel as I’m not a UNC-CH fan. Former resident of Phoenix, so I am an ex-Phoenician. Currently living in Manassas, VA. Thank goodness it’s not on 234 between there and Dumfries or I’d be a Dumass. ---
**Author:** ![DivineComedienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@DivineComedienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DivineComedienne)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/137 "2010-07-20T15:32:21Z")
New Jerseyan here. I recall an episode of _Taxi_, where Jim Ignatowski was addicted to watching TV. He was watching the Delaware State Legislature discuss whether residents should be referred to as “Delawareans” or Delawarites". Jim said, “_I’m leaning towards ‘Delaweenies’ myself_.” ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/138 "2010-07-20T16:41:43Z")
Hmm - the American states are easy: Floridian, Georgian and Californian. I don’t really know what people from the cities are called (Pompano Beach, Atlanta, Sacramento). In South Africa I was a Capetonian but I don’t know what people from the Western Cape province are called. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/139 "2010-07-20T17:56:34Z")
Originally from the south end of nowhere down where Illinois and Missouri join up. Closest town was Steeleville, so I guess that would be a Steelevillain. Pretty much everyone there is just a redneck or a hillbilly, with a whole lot of German Mennonite mixed in. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/140 "2010-07-20T18:08:02Z")
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