# What are the people in your city called?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 17, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786 "2000-05-17T19:40:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/1 "2000-05-17T19:40:51Z")
We all know **Angelinos** and **Gothamites**.
Then there’s the classical **Minneapolitans** ;
So, would a person from Cincinnati be a **Cincinnatus**?
Are people in Nome called **Pessimists**?
Do city nicknames fit in? Would a Pittsburgh native be a **Golden Triangulator**?
**What else? Real or suggested.**
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### Author:  [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/2 "2000-05-17T19:42:50Z")
We are called Edmontonians, pretty boring really. Edmonton is known as the City of Champions tho… so maybe we should be Championians.
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### Author:  [@Diagonal\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diagonal_Twin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/3 "2000-05-17T19:57:47Z")
In Michigan, there are Kalamazoo’s **Kalamazoon**. Like something on a biology test, huh?
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### Author:  [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/4 "2000-05-17T20:28:29Z")
College students.
– Sylence
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### Author:  [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/5 "2000-05-17T20:31:48Z")
I used to live and teach in Cambridge, MA and hence I was a Cantabridgian. The same applies to Canbridge, England, I believe.
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### Author:  [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/6 "2000-05-17T20:45:17Z")
The British always were poor spellers. But then they mock the Welsh fondness for “ll” and “w”, so it’s all relative.
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### Author:  [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/7 "2000-05-17T20:45:58Z")
Well I call most of them Idiots!
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### Author:  [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/8 "2000-05-17T20:51:12Z")
In Windsor, it was Windsorites. Now I’m in Tecumseh, but I will have to find out what we’re called…
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### Author:  [@My\_Sister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Sister)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/9 "2000-05-17T20:52:59Z")
In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the people are somtimes called Soos, like the Soo Locks canal, but then strangers try to spell it Sioux. What a hoot!
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### Author:  [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/10 "2000-05-17T20:53:25Z")
Rednecks
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### Author:  [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/11 "2000-05-17T20:56:04Z")
Torontonians. Lame.
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### Author:  [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/12 "2000-05-17T21:04:45Z")
I once tried to convince my friends in Toronto to abbreviate by calling themselves “Tontos”. They didn’t bite. Maybe someone told them what it meant in Spanish
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### Author:  [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/13 "2000-05-17T21:08:02Z")
Tonto in Spanish is “idiot”
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/14 "2000-05-17T21:15:39Z")
First off, X-files, that’s a UL. Cecil has burned that one on many occasions.
People in South Bend are called Benders.
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### Author:  [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/15 "2000-05-17T21:21:12Z")
Connor- Cecil make an error? Not likely is it.
Now a translator program is different:
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### Author:  [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/16 "2000-05-17T21:22:38Z")
Marylanders (yawn). But with the local accent, it sounds like “merlindurs.” People from Baltimore are called Baltimorians, but I (and a few other folks) say Baltimorons.
Interesting side note: Baltimore is the “City that reads” yeah right! Instead, we call it:
1. The city that bleeds
2. the city one leaves
and a few other funny ones. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/17 "2000-05-17T21:56:00Z")
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> We are called Edmontonians, pretty boring really. Edmonton is known as the City of Champions tho… so maybe we should be Championians.
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I remember when there was a joke that the French part of the sign was spelled wrong. “Edmonton, City of mushrooms”.
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### Author:  [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/18 "2000-05-17T21:58:21Z")
Saskatonians. Or, when people think they’re funny, “Toon towners”.
Bah.
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### Author:  [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/19 "2000-05-17T22:07:29Z")
Glaswegians - from Glasgow
My last city? Aberdeen - Aberdonians
Both pretty boring I’m afraid.
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### Author:  [@Wanderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanderlust)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-people-in-your-city-called/19786/20 "2000-05-17T22:09:52Z")
People in Vienna are “Wieners”, no joke.
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