Wie nennt man die Einwohner der einzelnen Bundesstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten? 🌺🌸
Von Znyke
Wie nennt man die Einwohner der einzelnen Bundesstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten? 🌺🌸
Von Znyke
41 Kommentare
*Masshole
Floridiots
50 states. 1 decent nickname.
Michigan is a -der
okie
Hawaiian??
Connecticut is Nutmegger – nobody ever says Connecticuter
I’m surprised Indiana is the only state with a unique nickname.
Hawaii Resident? Why not just Hawaiian?
There’s us
Then you got your flatlanders
Everyone else is from away
Maineiacs.
Massachusetts = Bay Stater
People from Illinois in Wisconsin=FIBs.
Bay Stater or Masshole no one says Massachusettsan
I realize the map isn’t OP’s, which makes it more frustrating that a linguist wasn’t consulted when making this map. Blue/green and red are not different suffixes.
I’m a linguist and morphologist. Morphologically speaking, there’s no difference between -*ian* and -*an*. They represent different forms (allomorphs) of the same thing depending on the phonological environment and they never occur in the *same* phonological environment.
That is, between the two, there’s either some /i/ sound at the end of the state name already (which is applied inconsistently by the map-maker in the case of Tennessee) or there’s a stress alternation when the <i> is added. The only *possible* exception to this that I see is Louisiana, which appears to be a case of some kind of vocalic harmony, rather than it being a separate morpheme.
Edit:
For that matter, *Hoosier* doesn’t appear to have a suffix at all. Granted, the actual etymology of the word is unknown to literally everyone, but I’d venture to say it’s likely monomorphemic, synchronically (i.e. in its present form; a word doesn’t know its etymology, either).
Idahoans should be called Russets
South Carolinians… is what we call ourselves anyway. Its a bit of a mouthful, but I haven’t heard an alternative. I like to say Greenvillagers, for people in Greenville, lol.
I prefer Kentuckyish
Someone from NH is a Granite Stater
Wut is Indiana even doing with Hoosier 😂
Nah you call people from Illinois FIBS.
If you live in a theocracy in a frozen desert, you are a Utahrd.
Always thought North Dakota should have gone with “ite”
North Dakoterite sounds like a dessert you would find in North Dakota
I’ll have you know the connecticut demonym is „Nutmegger“
„Hawaii resident“ seems like a subtle dig at colonialism and I’m here for it
After visiting the mint in Philadelphia I call people from Pennsylvania pennies.
fwiw bammer and bammerneck are used to refer to fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide
Here in South Carolina we call them „neighbors.“ We have a blanket term that covers erry else from out-of-state: „yew-ain’t-frum-aroun‘-hyere.“
I’ve never heard Jersian lol. I’ll take literally anything else including this non-exhaustive list below:
“From Jersey”
“People of the great and enlightened state of New Jersey”
“Fucking Jersey assholes”
New Hampshite.
Indiana is Hoosier.
New Hampshirer
I could see why a Hawaiian would take issue with Residents calling themselves Hawaiian
As one of those „Hoosiers“ I caught this joke immediately.
And cried.
Kentucker.
Blue and orange should be the same.
I dated a girl from Michigan, „Michigander“, in college. I don’t recommend that.
Idahodian
The -er in Hoosier isn’t a suffix.
Visiting politicians are mocked for saying New Hampshirite. It’s Granite Stater.
I unironically have to tell people I’m a yinzer when it comes up. I guess pennsylvanian works for the rest of the state.