England's Odd Demonyms
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Cockney: www.oed.com/discover/cockney/...
Janner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janner
Cousin Jan: www.oed.com/dictionary/cousin...
Brummie: www.atlasofbirmingham.co.uk/a...
Brummagem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummagem
Scouse: www.theguardian.com/notesandq...
Plastic Scouser: www.urbandictionary.com/defin...
Woolyback: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/...
Mackem: englandsnortheast.co.uk/sunde...
Geordie: www.newcastle.gov.uk/sites/de...
What are people from your city known as?
Meenzer (German city of Mainz) 😎
Sturgeons... (Steuren)
People from Shropshire go by their latin the name “Salopian”
Edmondite
Burqueños (Albuquerque)
I’ve never heard a single soul refer to Birmingham as “beloved on the world stage”
Nor me but if they knew Brummies better they would.
Used to live in Birmingham and go to metal gigs. The touring American bands used to always say how much they owed Brum.
Peaky Blinders has been great PR for the city apparently lol
@@nicholasmarsh5567No they wouldn't
Well seems you need to get out and about a bit, your friends circle is way too small, I've heard many positivities about Brummagem, but maybe that's cus I'm well travelled and have a circle of friends bigger than I can really handle.
Surely the best derogatory name that's been embraced by the locals are the "Monkey-Hangers" of Hartlepool?
Doesn't offend me in the slightest; it just lets me know if outsiders have heard of the legend. We refer to each other as Poolies.
I met someone from Hartlepool this past weekend and I immediately went "aah monkeys!"
They laughed and we carried on
I'm a Mackem, born in Sunderland, which is where my dad is from, but I'm also half Sand Dancer - the denonym for the nearby South Shields.
sanddancer mentioned!!!!!
Why say this on the Internet you 🤡
You're a Plastic to me.
Sand Dancer!? Ha, that's a new one on me! What about the people from North Shields?
@@tomthornton6259 I've heard "fish nabbers" and "cod heads" (where heads would be pronounced as heeds of course.) North Shields is still an active fishing port.
I like how Nottingham apparently comes from a local king Snot and everybody collectively decided to forget that and people from Nottingham are not called Snots
What are they called?
Adele a cockney? Your havin a bubble bath Ge
Never proved. May be an urban myth. A nearby village Sneinton may or may not have that origin but that's suspect too. Nottingham people are called "duckies" or " boggers".
I thought the nickname for people from Nottingham was "scabs?" 😏
@@akoot Now now, behave yourself. Those days are behind us.
"You all know what a demonyn is, right?"
Uh, yeah. It's what you call an evil mystical entity, innit?
demonym with an m
Wierdest demonym was what we locals called people in our tiny town in tunisia, Dehiba, which we'd call ourselves "Min Anakin" (meaning "of anakin") as an adjective. Reason being, Dehiba is in the Tataouine Governorate of tunisia, so we made a pun in the 1990s in reference to the planet the star wars character Anakin was born on
Wiltshiremen are referred to as 'Moonrakers' from a smuggler story that shows them in good (moon)light
And apparently the story is true, told to excise men when they were almost caught one night trying to retrieve smuggled brandy hidden in a lake. They got away with it too.
I’m a Geordie. A lot of years ago I worked with the British Army in the extreme south of England. Those rascally squaddies called all northeners “ganyams”. When I asked why, I was told that it all depends on homesickness and weekend leave. “It’s Friday and I’m gannin hyem”. (It’s Friday and I’m going home)
There's something interesting to be said about how the great vowel shift is less and less impactful the further north you go and people in the north seem to speak closer to old English, not only in pronunciation but in vocabulary with words like haem in Scotland and bairn
@@RNS_Aurelius Geordie haem is pronounced yem
In the army, Black Country people are sometimes called "Yam Yams". "Yam" in Black Country speak = "Y'am" = "You am", which elsewhere is said "You are".
"Wim" = "We am" = "We are".
"Them" = "They am" = "They are".
@@ianallan8005 Hyem, and Hame different words entirely, and both can be found in Northumberland, with Hame being popular in the North, and Hyem being popular in the South.
0:30 "why have i made that sound way more complicated than it needed to be"
linguistics in a nutshell
Sheffielders are called Deedars by other Tykes (Yorkshire people) because instead of saying "thee and thou" we said "dee and daa".
you've just blown my mind, I'm from Doncaster and I've met people who say Dee and Daa and never understood why.
My American friends online always find it funny when an occasional "thee" pops out
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33
Worst bit about Donny is how your new manager bounce has blown Danny Rohl out the water
@@stalfithrildi5366 I don't know what you're talking about, I assume that's football?
Or Liverpool: "Dee doo doh, don't dey doh?" (They do, though, don't they though)...
Micky mousers are also called la laas. Amongst some other names I won't mention here
Ones from around the north east include Sanddancer for South Shields and Smoggie for Teesside
Don’t forget the Pit Yakkers from Ashington
I’m from Middlesbrough and I am frequently mistaken for a Geordie!
Brummagem - the G is pronounced like J!
Smoggie started because of football, Sunderland supporters made it up due to the heavy air pollution in the city.
Wools are from wirral, the peninsula dividing Liverpool from Wales, surrounded by the mersey and dee.
Wools are also from Wigan, St. Helens, Warrington. Basically anybody who isn't Scouse! Source: my Dad's family are from Liverpool and my Mum's family is from Wigan !
I am a wirral wool, this comment summoned me 😂
@@Mmjk_12 I always wonder how many people I see on the streets who watch the same content creators as me. Wouldn't that be fun to know
Brazil is full of weird denonyms. Examples:
- Rio de Janeiro: Carioca
- Salvador: Soteropolitano
- Rio Grande do Sul: Gaúcho
- Espírito Santo: Capixaba
- Rio Grande do Norte: Potiguar
I thought Gaucho was an Argentine cowboy.
@@CAMacKenzie Gaúcho with the accent (gah-OO-shoo), in Portuguese, refers to any person from the state Rio Grande do Sul, even urban dwellers. Gaucho without the accent (GOW-tcho), in Spanish, refers to countryside people in Argentina and Uruguay.
Names famous Scousers but not the four most famous ones in the world.
He already did when he said Fab Four
You have accidentally overlooked that people in Birmingham and the surrounding area call Birmingham "Brum". It hasn't fallen out of use. Brummie is a person from Brum... It isn't much of a leap given the abbreviated form of the old name for the town / city hasn't fallen out of use.
Yamyam
Yam yams are people from the black country north of Birmingham. Walsall and Wolverhampton Dudley and West Bromwich the biggest town and cities.
Brummies and yam yams don't like being muddled up
Love how your photo of Newcastle shows more of Gateshead than it does Newcastle.
Worth noting that the egg part of the possible "cockney" origin story is because the Middle English word was ey. Which is funny because the Old English word was ǣg, we lost the G and then found it again later
Interesting! In German, it's "ei", pronounced essentially like "eye". So it seems like we gained a G, then lost it, then got it.
@@sharonminsuk Gdamn it, cockneys aint named after cocks eggs. Why would that ever be true?
The Old English “g” was not always pronounced as in the hard closed “gg” in the modern word “egg.” Position your throat as if to say the g, but don’t close off your throat as you pronounce it. It sounds to our ears like the “y” sound we have now and it was sometimes transliterated with “y” or “g”.
Think the two were used concurrently until printers fixed the hard g sound. I remember reading about a group of medieval travellers who were hungry and stopped at a farmstead to ask for food but asked for eggs rather than ei, only to be told that the farmer did not speak French.
Also living in Plymouth, I think the Janner name is more about the accent. A regional Devonian accent (farmer accent closer to a Somerset or Bristolian accent) and Plymouth accent (Jannarrrr) do sound different. Different again to a Cornish accent as well. One thing that unites them all is overpronouncing Rs.
As someone who is interested in traditional accents and dialects, it would be great if you could explain what the differences are. West Country accents are some of my favourites.
Plymothian here, best way I describe it, would be, Janners drop the T and emphasise er in words,
Plymothian will pronounce the T and not emphasise the er in words
I grew up around Totnes and never knew people from Plymouth were known as Janners. I would seldom hear the word and never enquired as to what it meant. A strong westcountry accent in Plymouth though. I always found it strange that the most yokel, bumpkin accents are often found in the citys of Plymouth and Bristol. I was at a friends place in Totnes once when she was raided by police. There was someone loudly knocking on the door and as soon as i heard their accents i knew who it was - Plymouth DS. I think the Bristol and Plymouth accents are similar but Bristol being a little softer. Cornish a bit more nasal and twangy if you know what i mean.
@@MrOoYT Janners can make a real meal of the 'or' sound in words. Devon accent for 'door,' 'floor,' and 'more,' would be 'dorrrrr,' 'florrr, and 'morrrre' - while Janner would be closer to 'doo-er,' 'floo-er,' and 'moo-er.' Our 'oh' sounds tend to be a bit more on the 'posh-sounding' side as well... I did try to think about how that could be written phonetically, but damn is it ever hard! Literally just imagine a small child saying "oh" in a Downton Abbey accent, and that's pretty close to how a Janner would say it. 😊
Oh - except my son has just reminded me that I tend to pronounce 'oh' sounds at the END of words as 'er' - as in "win-der" and "foll-er" for "window" and "follow." And l's/double l's at the ends of words as w's - i.e. 'shall,' wheel,' and 'all' as "sha-uw," "whee-uw," and "aww."
I mean, it's all true, but reading this back I can't help feeling like I must sound like a proper knuckle-dragger every time I open my mouth...!
@@Maerahn ahh so it’s like Bristol, a scary concoction of city people speaking country
Jeff Lynne is another great Brummie celebrated all over the world. LA, New York, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, SHARD END.
I'm originally from Birmingham and when we'd be going to the city centre, we'd still say we're off to Brummagem. Not sure if that's common or just me and my mental family 😆 (Also, it's said with a soft g by the way). Oh, and when I was working on building sites, you'd often be asked to pass the 'Brummie screwdriver", meaning the hammer!
I loved that you used a picture of richard hammond with oliver!
There's also some pretty odd ones from Mexico. People from Monterrey are called "regiomontanos", people from Mexico City are called "chilangos" or "defeños" and my absolute favorite is the name the name they give to people from Aguascalientes: "hidrocálidos".
I would say that only Mexico city has odd ones. Regiomontano makes sense since "regio" means "royal" y "montano" is "from the montano"
My favorite is that people from Guadalajara are called Tapatios.
George means earth worker. I guess it's possible for Geordie to be used for coal miners.
This is a perfect video to, once and for all, state that no my username has no relation to Mackem. It's just a coincidence
You should take pride in your Sunderland heritage.
I never heard of the stew "lobscouse", but I know the northern german version "Labskaus". I didn't know it existed in Scandinavia as well.
Lapskaus. Meat, potato & root vegetable stew
Yes. I'm a 65 year old Australian. Brumby is a word my father used. He was born in a remote rural area of Victoria in 1903.
Those names that started as derogatory might be what we call a "geuzennaam" in Dutch: a name that starts derogatory but is picked up and worn by its referrents with pride.
Etymology: When the Spanish ruled over The Netherlands, the Dutch wrote a letter to Brussels to plea their independence, upon which the recipient referred to them as "gueux" ("beggers"), which got picked up and bastardized to "geus" in Dutch, with a new meaning: "fighter for the Dutch revolt"
Another, more recent "geuzennaam" is "wap(pie)". This refers to a person who falls for conspiracy theories (especially since CoViD) and is an insult, but some "wappies" have started to wear the term with pride: "If thinking this makes me a 'wappie', then fine, I'm a 'wappie'!"
Yaaaay, proud Janner here (actual Plymouth Janner too.) My dad was in the Navy, and I remember him telling me 'Janner' was naval-related, but it's good to hear the other origin story too.
I'm from New Zealand, often known as Kiwis, from Auckland, our largest city, we are called "Jaffas", or Dorklanders by those who live outside of Auckland.
I'll add to this. Auckland contains about 75% of the NZ population. JAFA stands for "Just Another *Effing* Aucklander"
@@mickbull7547 Auckland population circa 1.7 million, NZ population circa 5 million
I'm near a Manchester in the US, I was a bit surprised to see that the demonym is Mancunian. It comes from an older Latin word, Mancunium, of uncertain etymology, from the city's Roman days (in 79 AD).
The etymology of Manchester derives from the latinised version of the pre-roman name "Mamcucium" - The "Chester" part relates to a place where the romans built a fort.
My favourite is “Glaswegian”
Agreed, but doesn't qualify for one of _England's_ demonyms 😊
Being from Leeds, I'd be called a 'Loiner'.
Glaswegian, from Glasgow. Norwegian, from Norgow. It makes perfect sense.
@@DeusExHonda Weegie
@@DeusExHondacould also be looked as Norwegian from norway and Glaswegian from glasway
I'm from Groningen in the Netherlands and we are called Mollebonen.
Thanks for a top class video. A couple of points. The “g” in Brummagem is pronounced soft like the”j” in jar. I have read that Brummagem is not thought to be a corruption of Birmingham but a perfectly regular parallel development from the Old English - compare the equally valid pronunciations of Shrewsbury as Shroosbury and Shrowsbury. While we are on the subject of language I should mention that though my original Brummie speech is probably a little diluted I expect that my pronunciation of the diphthongs ou and ie appears eccentric. Most of us have some sort of accent other than pure RP and I was interested in yours. I noticed that you have the London traits of an occasional glottal stop and - always - the pronunciation of th as an f eg Plymouf instead of Plymouth. Additionally you seem to pronounce final ls as ws - eg “people” as “peopuw” - and regularly placed a heavy stress on the last consonant of a sentence, no doubt for clarity. I wonder what sort of a (slight) accent that is. Anyway, interesting
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Suvverner... vey tal' like vat... Peepoo fwom ve sahf...
The demonym for someone from Birmingham, Alabama could be " 'Bama Brummie", perhaps. 😂
Coming from Birmingham, AL, I have literally never heard of the name Brummie even though I even know someone from Birmingham, England
Thx for an interesting video. It introduced Janners and Mackems to me, and explained Geordie. My grandfather's family hailed from Caernarfon, and its natives are called Cofis. Why? My cousin lives in Indiana, and regards himself as Hoosier. From where does that nickname derive?
I'm a Grecian, and we generally use janner as a derogatory term
That is because you are shiite horses!
Ahem, you neglected to name-check history's finest Brummie: Nigel Mansell's moustache...
To clarify about Sunderland; the term comes from "Takkers and Makkers", which was current at least in the 1970s. Takers and makers alluded to the pits (of which there were several) the shipyards and the glassworks (Famously Pyrex). Also there was the "We makkem, yea takkem due to the limestone ridge across the river mouth that made it rather difficult to get the buggers back.
the miners' lamp was invented by Humphrey Davy for the Cornish tin mines.
re: Cockney "ey" used to be a legitimate word for egg in English as well. cf. with Dutch "ei"
Actually, this almost perfectly parallels the John/Jan thing brought up right after regarding Plymouth
in the state of NSW in australia, someone is called a "New South Welshman"
Or “Cockroaches “
New south sheep sha... Never mind 😅
Im from near a small town in East Anglia called Stowmarket. Some people from there where refured to as "Stow Martians" though weather that stuck, I dont know.
I lived in Plymouth for 3 years but never heard the word Janner
I live in a small town a few miles from Plymouth and the word janner is exclusively used for people from Plymouth
I live in Plymouth and this is true. We are so different from the rest of Devon, more similar to some towns across the river. Our accent is different from Cornish and Devonian.
My Dad (Ex RN & Scottish) Called Everyone down here JAN!
Having been born in the UK over half a century ago i only knew about half of these and after reading the comments there's a vast number i never knew mostly from the North of England. Which is odd as a kid i watched lots of of UK tv shows based in the North of England.
But seriously i've never met people who used these Demonyms or seen them in print or heard them on tv/radio/movies.
I'm Geordie but I'll mention my local brethren from Middlesborough called "Smoggies" ;)
5:36 plz tell me the neighbouring yammies got featured bc that name is wildddd
I believe Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy invented the miners safety lamp!
Sir Humphry Davy invented a miners safety lamp. There were more than one. William Reid Clanny invented one too.
My grandfather had the absolute thickest Cockney accent, I don’t think I honestly ever understood a single word he ever said. Oh and I doubt any Aussie he ever came across understood him either 😂
Also, never heard of the term Brummie 😂
Something similar happens within my region, where people from certain towns and cities receive weird demonyms, often derogatory in origin.
In Dorset, anyone who is *not* from Dorset is called a Grockle, especially if they're here on holiday.
Same in Devon & Cornwall, also sometimes Emmit!
This is all well and good but whats the denonym for Edinburgh, ive been using lothians for years
Not from Edinburgh but Perth and I've only ever heard Edinburger
Missed opportunity not to mention Yam Yam as the demonym for someone from the Black Country
I Am, I Am 😂
I thought the most famous Geordie ever was ITV's Vera.
I've only ever heard Brumigem pronounced with the 'g' sounding like a 'j': so it sounds like, Brummyjum. I've heard of Janners, but not 'Cousin Jan'. I know it as 'Cousin Jack', but that may be due to a folk song. I'm from the West Country so have been called a Wurzel, and a carrot-cruncher.
Yeah, it's Cousin Jack and Cousin Jenny, not Jan.
People from Pittsburgh in the USA are known as Yinzers. It's derived from the local word for You, singular or plural. "Are yinz goin' Dahntahn?" Meaning Are you going downtown?
I thought they were called sheetz ;)
I don’t know why but I find it hilarious that Bede and jordon Pickford where mentioned in the same sentence
I think someone from Oxford should be known as "Cappies" (for the mortarboards worn during university celebrations).
I’m from Gloucester Massachusetts, and we have been referred to as Gloucesterites. Is this the same with the original Gloucester?
According to Wikipedia the denonym for Norwich is norvician. But there's no source cited and I've never heard anyone say that ever. Googling it also doesn't help much - it's a bit of a mystery
The town of nantwich has the demonym "dabber" which i think comes from the towns history of leather or salt trade but i am not sure
The bit about Welsh 😂
I'm from Johannesburg, so the city denonym is Johannesburger or Joburger (Joburg being a nickname). Interestingly, the word "burger" in it's original Dutch and German literally translates as "citizen".
Here in new england people like my self from Massachusetts are called mass holes. Which would include our Plymouth
Janner and proud and I can definitely say it's the city folk called this .... Everyone else is a Devonian
I'm a Janner too, but happy to accept Devon folk (Except Grecians!) 😂
People from Kent are just known as Kentish atm but I think we could call ourselves "Catties" - cattie from cathedral, as in Canterbury Cathedral
Also I could be a Cat-boy lmao
Not my city but people who work at or attend renaissance festival a lot are called "rennies", and those who work at circuses and carnivals "Carnies" (as in the saying, "not my circus not my carnies")
I live in Somerville, Massachusetts; one of our demonyms is "Villens", more often used by people whose families have lived here for a long time. I'm more fond of "Somervudlians", obviously a cheeky nod to "Liverpudlians". Meanwhile, since "Massachusetts" doesn't exactly lend itself to conventional suffixes, we semi-officially get stuck with the rather clunky "Bay Staters", but a far more commonly used term is "Massholes", mostly by people from other states. :-)
Oh, and people from Cambridge, immediately south of us, do cheerfully call themselves "Cantabridgians".
What is the background music?
Way back, some Leicester types were called woolybacks.
I'm from London and we don't consider Adele or David Beckham cockneys.. Adele isn't even from East London she's from Tottenham, that's North-East London.
Certainly not David much. More true Essexy. But Adele more so. Linda robson and Cathy Burke and from Islington. Linda often refers to herself as Cockney. Though just realised you said tottenham which is in harringey so bit more north granted. But It's also about where people spread to too. Eg the Essex accent being similar to cockney because of white flight and cockneys moving to the shires.
There is no way people genuinely didnt know that cockrels dont lay eggs
Apart from Janner and Mackem, I'd heard of all those before now.
Tons of denonyms
Most famous Cockney: Michael Caine?
He was a bleedin sarf Lond'ner not a cockney.
New York is a pretty bad example because a dairy farmer from upstate is certainly a New Yorker and no one would say different. And you had Philadelphia right there, you wouldn't have even needed move the arrow.
Reminds me of the debate as to whether people from the state of Michigan are called Michiganians or Michiganers
Michiganders?
In the Netherlands some towns have different names during our carnival, like Heemskerk where I've been born is called "Ezelenheem", so I'm an "Ezel" and yup, that's Donkey 😂
Amsterdam is Mokum so Mokumers, butnot for Carnival.
A whole list is here, and there are more besides these, outside of the Carnival season:
nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_alternatieve_Nederlandse_plaatsnamen_tijdens_carnaval
I live a bout 40 miles North of Birmingham Alabama all my life and I have never heard of anyone from there as any name . We just say “That guy is from Birmingham “ I don’t know if you know. But the suburbs also share names with British counterpart.
I know the name "Brummie" (well "Brummi") for something completely different and a complete other etymology. A "Brummi" in Germany is a name you could give to a big truck. And the etymology is very simple, as the sound of a cars engine is called "brummen". So, a "Brummi" is just a car with a loud engine.
"Brum" can be the sound a car makes here too - but the city of course predates the invention of the automobile.
@@FoggyD
It wasn't my thought of delegitimate something. I just talked about an interesting coincidence. I don't think, that Birmingham is the source of the german Brummi.
@@HalfEye79 I was just expanding on the point. Not sure why you'd take that as an accusation of trying to delegitimise the nickname for Birmingham??
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You need to do a little more research on some of these. Cockney is either a derivation of Cockaigne - a mythical kingdom of liberty and licentiousness - or from "cock an eye" which was (is?) a very widespread habit there for recognising other insiders and "cocky" is a related word - it doesnt mean "useless". "Janner" is a derivation of "Jane" which is a common term for matelots - Plymouth being a major port. More important though, there are dozens you've missed out, for example Tykes (for South Yorkshire people), Boggers (Nottingham), Yonners (Lancashire), Yammies (Black Country), Monkeyhangers (Hartlepool/Teeside), Moonrakers (Dorset/Wiltshire), Taffs (west Wales), Gogs (north Wales), Muffins (south Devon)..... and I’d like to hear you explain the origin of Botherers (for Lancashire people).
People from Middlesbrough are known as Smoggies.
Missed a lot here. I can see why you skipped us Mancs as its pretty obvious. I'm suprised smoggy and yamyam didn't make it
As a Janner we say john nomaly not like jan
My Mum, who was a cockney said it came from the Huguenots…now this gets complicated…a lot of the Londoners had crooked noses - not sure if it was a south east Anglo Saxon thing or what but ‘cock ney’ came from cock nez ( cock for crocked French for nose). Like how cliche cockneys carry a songbird in a cage (something else the French Huguenots brought with them along with all the mulberry trees scattered across London from when they were silk farmers).
i live in america and in the south we call the northerners yanks, but in england yank can refer to all americans
Why no link to the other Cockney vid other than during this vid? Mobile app users have to rewind (seek) to access that, the there is a menu that expands to show all of the links that are shown in a given video's that can be expanded during any links that shows up during playback, but since this is the only link that shows up in this video during the video... if I want to watch this one in its entirety *before* I go watch that other video, I have to seek that exact part of the video where it shows up, for only a few seconds. Maybe put it in the description or pin it in a comment.
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As it turns out, there's no like to that video whatsoever.
[END EDIT] (Everything below was part of the original comment as it were.)
Also, I'm really hoping I get to learn how _ney equals egg_ in the other Cockney vid... cuz that parts baffling me. I say as much cuz you don't always explain name/word origins to that resolution... I'm guessing you figure your audience already knows certain thing that I just don't... so it's common for me to to have to Google the etymology of words suffixes and prefixes after watching your videos... which I feel kind of defeats the purpose of your videos.
Just play critique I've been moving to articulate for a while now. This critique is something I mean as constructive criticism, not as a personal jab at you. Take it or leave it for what it's worth to you. I'll not harp on it any further.
The last time I heard the word Brummagem, was in the 1970's.
Yes - Brumma-gem much used in these parts today, but never Brumma-gum!
@@nolongerlistless I still pronounce it as Birmin-gum. Like Shrewsbury I pronounce it as Shoesbury.
So good to see The Bastard
In Ireland there's Jackeens vs Culchies. I don't know if anyone cares, but I can explain these if asked. As for me, I am a Yank/Yankee.
I've lived in the United States all my life and have never heard of the word Brummagum!
And I have Brummie ancestors and live nearby now, and neither have I! Brumma-gem (not gum as in chewing, but gem as in gemstone) is the name.
Can someone tell me, what the demonym for people from Southampton is. Would it be; Southamptonian, Southamptonite, or Southamptoner?
Also people from The Isle of Man are called Manx
I was mowing yesterday, I get a lot of thinking done then, and I was wondering where Geordies and Liverpublians got their names.
Same sort of thing happens in the U.S. For example, people from Ohio are called Buckeyes.
Don't forget Hoosiers in Indiana and Cheeseheads in Wisconsin! Lol.
Yes that’s true, and I’m sure it’s true of many other places as well, but it’s probably a much less common tendency in much of the US. What’s more common are nicknames of cities that are not extended to their inhabitants. The name Hoosiers and Buckeyes are familiar names in the US, but while there are other names like that, they’re not that commonplace. So Birmingham is often referred to as the ‘Magic City,’ because it expanded rapidly in the early 1870s when it was founded. That’s because iron ore and coal was discovered in the Jones Valley then and the city quickly expanded with the birth of its iron and steel industry. But the people of Birmingham don’t refer to themselves as ‘magicians.’ Denver’s nickname is the Mile high City because its height is a mile above sea level. but its residents are not referred to as Mile Highers as far as I know, probably because of what that moniker more commonly refers to.
States have names that are often extended to their inhabitants. Residents of Alabama refer to themselves as Alabamians, for example. The people of Florida are Floridians and the people of Georgia are Georgians.
Adele is not a Cockney. Tottenham is north London
I’m from Bradford, our demonym is the unimaginative Bradfordian. I feel like if we were to have our own then one referencing our historic wool trade would fit.
Unofficially Bradistan.
Brummagem has a soft G not a hard G was pronounced in the video.