# What do you call people from...... Maine, Ohio, Nevada? Can we list them all? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644 "2005-08-18T19:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/61 "2005-08-19T08:46:21Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > But let’s go international and try to solve a problem that’s been bugging mankind since 1925: > > In English, what on earth do you call a person from Oslo? 😕 How bout ‘Osloon?’ ‘Osluvian?’ ‘Oslord?’ ‘Osload?’ ‘Oslabian?’ (pl. ‘Oslabia’) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/62 "2005-08-19T08:54:52Z")
> [@HubZilla](#): > > Hawaii=Hawaiian, but that doesn’t seem right. We usually refer to Hawaiians as in native Hawaiians, which are a small percent of the population (unless you count 1/16th ancestry calling themselves Hawaiians). > > As a haole, I don’t think I’d identify myself as a Hawaiian to people from other states. I think non-native residents should be called Sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/63 "2005-08-19T13:35:36Z")
Maine people we called nards, short for Mainard (this is when we lived in Maine, the lobster guy we hung with called tourists “Goat roppers”, don’t know where that came from). Mass drivers just after they go from the far left lane to the exit, cutting you off, at about 80mph are called “Massholes” as previously noted. I will always be a “masshole” ☹ , my son a “nard” 🆒 . ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/64 "2005-08-19T15:40:47Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I am one, I like it, and I’ve always used Connecticutian to refer to me my fellow Nutmeggers. Well, that’s good to know! Maybe we can start a trend. > [@](#): > > As an aside: I always find your name startling, because I once hooked up with a lovely girl who I met through a usenet group – similar in tone to the SDMB – who used Lucretia as her alias. (Actually, she used the full name.) I always do a double-take at your name and check your join date, but alas, you are never her. . I am sorry I’m not her. I do like to think I’m lovely, though. > [@](#): > > For revenge, they call us Connecticunts. Never heard of either of those. I’ve lived here for over two decades, with a year away thrown in here and there. But I’m much more NY-oriented than Connecticut-oriented, being near the border, so it’s quite possible people use them. > > That cite somebody posted listed the official resident name as Connecticuter…I have never in my life heard this term. I will be sure and ask everybody I know what they call us, and see if anyone comes up with it. I’m a **Connecticutian** born and bred, from a family of natives, all decidedly _not_ New York oriented, and have never heard the term ‘Connecticuter’ used as any sort of official resident name. Neither Connecticutite or Connectican, for that matter, and honestly, I seemed to have missed Connecticunt, too. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/65 "2005-08-19T15:42:03Z")
Around here we’re Idahoans, easy and simple. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/66 "2005-08-19T15:51:42Z")
OK, let’s settle this Connecticut thing once and for all … with Googlefight! Connectican = 75 results Connecticunt = 271 results Connecticuter = 757 results Connecticutian = 608 results Connecticutite = 121 results Nutmegger = 5,020 results Nutmegger wins by a mile! Too bad no one outside of your state is ever going to use it. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/67 "2005-08-19T15:53:50Z")
I will back up Nutmegger. I’ve actually heard that used before, and as previously stated, I’m from Indiana. And as for the "official"cite earlier, nobody in their right mind will ever use Indianan, few will probably ever even heard of it before. We’re Hoosiers, whether or not (definitely not, in my case) root for IU. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/68 "2005-08-19T15:56:18Z")
I’m an Illinoisian (Ill-ih-no-yan) Hoosier-transplant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/69 "2005-08-19T16:04:07Z")
Ok Europeans - we ought to let you join the fun too! So let’s start with Germany - easy…Germans British - Britons Spain - Spanish Liechtenstein - 😕 ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/70 "2005-08-19T16:13:00Z")
Man, who cares about Europeans, what did they ever do for us? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/71 "2005-08-19T16:26:22Z")
I say we start calling folk from the Carolinas, collectively, “Carolingians.” Has a classy ring, donchya think? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/72 "2005-08-19T17:06:13Z")
I was thinking the other day instead of Idahoan, wouldn’t Idawhore sound better? ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/73 "2005-08-19T17:12:15Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Proud Jerseyian here. Or, possibly a Jerseyite. Hmm…lesse what [Googlefight](http://googlefight.com/) has to say on the subject. > > Ok, looks like I’m a **Jerseyite** : > > Jerseyite - 6,360 results > Jerseyian - 862 results I call myself a New Jersrealite. But that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/74 "2005-08-19T17:13:21Z")
> [@JimSox5](#): > > Man, who cares about Europeans, what did they ever do for us? 😉 I agree! Hello! Some of us left that place for a reason! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/75 "2005-08-19T17:13:49Z")
> [@](#): > > What about Utah? Utan’s perhaps? **Utahn** doesn’t look right, but it’s what the newspapers out there use. I kinda like it. It’s different – looks like it needs to buy another vowel. The best word for someone from New Jersey I’ve heard was **Jerseyman** , used by Ambrose Bierce a century ago. Only now it would be taken as sexist. “Jerseyperson” hasn’t got the same ring. The only decent designation I’ve heard for Massachusetts is to drop the state name altogether and use **Bay Stater**. (That suggests “Garden Stater” as a non-sexist New Jersey native) Didn’t we just have this discussion a couple of months ago? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/76 "2005-08-19T17:37:16Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Actually, it’s Quebecer or Quebecker (for anyone from Quebec) and Québécois (for a French-Canadian from Quebec). In French, _Québécois_ can have either meaning; as an anglophone, I could call myself _Québécois_ when speaking French, but not when speaking English. > > As for the rest of them: > > British Columbians > Albertans > Saskatchewanians > Manitobans > Ontarians > New Brunswickers > Nova Scotians > Newfoundlanders and Labradorians > Yukoners > Northerners (or people from the Northwest Territories) > Nunavummiut (singular, Nunavummiuq) **matt!** you forgot the Islanders! Now, what about nicknames? E.g. - “flatlanders” for Saskatchewanians; “Bluenoser” for Nova Scotians; other suggestions? ---
**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:** [August 19, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/77 "2005-08-19T17:52:44Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > **matt!** you forgot the Islanders! No, I didn’t; they were already mentioned, so I didn’t mention them again. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/78 "2005-08-20T06:22:30Z")
Utah is “Utahn” Say YOO-tawn. Best city residence name I’ve run across was when I lived up in Bellingham, WA. I was told residents were Bellinghamsters. You heard that yet, **Johnny L.A.**??? Here in Huntington Beach, residents are often called “Sons of Beaches.” At least I think that’s what was yelled at me the other day… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/79 "2005-08-20T06:54:40Z")
New South Welshmen. Sydneysiders. If from Newcastle, they’re Novocastrians. Victorians. Mexicans (we’re south of the border). Melburnians/Melbournites. Queenslanders. Brisbanites. South Australians. Crow Eaters. Adelaidean. West Australians. Sandgropers. Perthites. Northern Territory folk are called Territorians. ACT people are called Public Servants. Tasmanians are called Taswegians, or Sis. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/80 "2006-02-06T05:14:06Z")
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