Talk:List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

message: North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kentucky missing from the list of states!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.162.0 (talk) 02:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dakotas and Kentucky 

message: I'm from ottawa, and I've never heard 'Ottawan', it has always been'person from ottawa'. How many of the rest of these are actually in common usage?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.145.108 (talk) 19:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ottawa

message: Is the adjective column of the U.S. state section of this really correct?? Of course, we say "Georgia peach", not "Georgian peach". 66.245.79.79 21:23, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adjective denonyms of U.S. states 

message: I found, at http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:SF4lCaXea9kJ:reviewmaterials.tripod.com/english/gullivers_travels.html+lilliputian+brobdingnagian+lilliputians+brobdingnagians+blefuscudian+blefuscudians+laputan+laputans&hl=en&start=1, all of these words:
 Blefuscudian (adjective)
 Blefuscudians 
 Brobdingnagian (adjective)
 Brobdingnagians
 Laputan (adjective)
 Laputans
 Lilliputian (adjective)
 Lilliputians
Wavelength 23:59, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imaginary regions 

message: The adjectives should each be in the opening paragraph of the appropriate article, where they will be of some use to the reader, and this poor orphan kitten can be put in a gunnysack and taken to the river... --Wetman 02:52, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A better use

message: How come the other forms such as Kazakh, Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, Uzbek, Turkmen, etc. are not listed alongside Kazakhstani, Kyrgyzstani, etc.?
:Unless I'm mistaken, "Kazakh" is an ethnicity and "Kazakhstani" is a nationality. Hence you can be a Kazakhstani without being a Kazakh, and vice-versa. Aridd (talk) 10:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the ethnic name has generally been adopted as the demonym of the country, regardless of ethnicity. The -stani endings are not generally used except for Pakistan - where the "Pak" prefix dies not denote a people, but the adjective "pure". Ptilinopus (talk) 13:50, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kazakhstani, Kyrgyzstani, etc. 

message: Now that she lives in Westchester, Hillary Clinton asked a really intelligent question: what is (or would be) the demonym for Chappaqua?  Would it be "Chappaquan?" Eddieuny 04:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chappaqua 

message: I added an  tag because there's no way to determine if these are correct.  The one I'm looking at in particular is Singapore.  "Singaporean" only refers to people?  That's not the only way it's used in a lot of places.  I see Singaporean all over the place and not just referring to people.  How are we to know that's correct?  —Wknight94 (talk) 05:14, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced 

message: See my last section...  Also, check out Wiktionary:Singaporean which says anything related to Singapore can be called Singaporean.  So I'll just go ahead and change that one...  —Wknight94 (talk) 05:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singaporean? 

message: How do you edit the tables in this? - THE GREAT GAVINI {T-C} 07:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Each is in a template, to prevent the article becoming oversized. So, when you edit the article, you'll see (for example) that the template under the "Continents" heading is . Hence Template:Continental adjectivals and demonyms would be the page you'd want to edit if you wanted to contribute to the "Continents" section. Similarly for the other sections and their templates. Hope this helps!  Regards, David Kernow 10:02, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, got it now - I was typing in  instead of Tempate:City adjectivals and demonyms.  - THE GREAT GAVINI {T-C} 07:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help! [How to edit the tables?] 

message: the adjective form of Anguilla is not anguillan but anguillian. i am sure of this but do not know how to edit tables like the one in this article. can someone please make the correction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdw58 (talk • contribs) 
: Done – thanks for spotting!  David Kernow 03:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  anguilla 

message: Maybe someone can make links for the demonyms listed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#More_demonyms. Wavelength 08:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#More_demonyms 

message: Who added Honolulan?  There is no such thing.  It doesn't exist and the closest you'll hear is Oahuans, but even with that you don't hear much unlike Mauians or Molokaians of which we use a lot.  They do have references in Hawaiian for more specific places in the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.  Mamoahina 22:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honolulan 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_March_25#Luxembourgian_people for a discussion concerning the proper adjectival to be used for Luxembourg. Caerwine Caer’s whines 19:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luxembourg adjectival 

message: I used to read "Kelper" as a demonym of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. But in the table it doesn't appear. In that table you can read "Falkland Islanders" there instead of "Falklanders" or "Malvinenses".
--201.213.101.32 (talk) 13:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ISTR that a Kelper is someone who gathers seaweed for a living (which is/was done on the Falklands, but also elsewhere, such as the Channel Islands). Don't know whether or not it is a demonym for the Falklands, but could it have meant the occupation in the sources you read? Grutness...wha? 00:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kelper 

message: Reading this article just now made me realise: why is there not a section for regions of the United Kingdom? It's all very well that British municipalities have a mention, but not counties or singificant areas of those counties. I can think of several myself, and I'll give some examples to find out whether it be advisable to add such a section.
Deeside - Deesider (person)
Merseyside - Merseysider (person)
Shropshire - Salopian (person and adjective; may get confused with Shrewsbury demonym)
Devon - Devonian (person)
Flintshire - Flintshirean (person and adjective; not so sure about this one, though)
Kent - Kentish (adjective)
RJL (talk) 20:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom regions?

message: How is it possible that the vandalism "drunk" has been undetected since May 2006?! And how is it possible that it was obviously inadvertently added by a respected editor in this edit?! --Espoo (talk) 07:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish slur undetected for one year 

message: it's quite a big place, but I have never heard it , will investigate Feroshki (talk) 03:12, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Christchurch NZ ?

message: Zcatecano/-a should be Zacatecano/-a NoWay555 (talk) 00:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: Hey, it's missing Ivory Coast.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.241.153.36 (talk) 14:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's under 'Côte d'Ivoire'. — kwami (talk) 06:16, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ivory Coast

message: I would contest the claim that 'New South Welsh' is the adjectival form. It is never described as the New South Welsh government or New South Welsh climate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.171.160.71 (talk) 01:37, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New South Wales 

message: I believe Bamar is an ethnic group, not a demonym for all of Burma / Myanmar.  Ethan Mitchell (talk) 01:54, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bamar 

message: Where does the idea come from that German cities ending in -burg have the suffix -ian added? The normal demonym would add -er. A person from Hamburg is indeed a Hamburger(!), one from Brandenburg is a Brandenburger, and so on. The same would apply to Luxembourg in English/German (in French the suffix -eois would be added). The -ian ending is utterly contrived, IMHO. Ptilinopus (talk) 13:58, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  German -burg cities 

message: 'Inbreds' is a bit harsh. Accurate, but harsh.Moretonbaychestnut (talk) 08:02, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tasmanians 

message: What is the adjective of Oceania? Is it Oceanian or Oceanic or just Oceania? Oceanian cannot be found in a lot of dictionaries, Oceanic is rarely used, I saw a lot of sports articles use "Oceania Championship". So, which one is correct? Bobbie73 (talk) 09:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oceania 

message: Although "Queensland" as an adjective is fine for attributive use (e.g. "the Queensland woman"), it doesn't work for predicative use (you can't say "the woman is Queensland" in the way you'd say "the woman is Victorian"). Is there a predicative adjective for Queenslanders? Logically by analogy with England/English and Poland/Polish it seems like it should be "Queenslish" ("the woman is Queenslish"), but that just sounds silly. 
Similarly "Northern Territory" is listed as the adjective, but has the same issue; besides, wouldn't "Northern Territorian" work perfectly well as the adjective, both attributive and predicative? Any thoughts? --Greenwoodtree 03:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Australian adjectival forms: attributive vs. predicative

message: The Name of Andalusia is not of Greco-Roman origin. ♆ CUSH ♆ 09:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andalusia 

message: This article lists "Brandenburgish" as the adjective for Brandenburg (see here). At least in German, the use of "Märkisch" is quite common as an alternative (see here, here (in German) and here (in German)). I would propose adding this to the table, though I'm not sure where best to place it. Lagustus (talk) 14:57, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brandenburg