Demonyms Quiz

Can't believe I missed Dutch and Swiss...what was I thinking?

you don’t call a person from the netherlands a ‘dutch’ they speak dutch, but i speak english and i am an american not a ‘english’ they don’t really have anything they are called.

You could call a person from the Netherlands a Dutchman.

or a Dutchwoman ^^.

He would be the Flying Dutchman.

And if he was a frycook?

the Frying Dutchman!

My 1st guess was Nederlander.

Actually, there is a Swiss French and a Swiss Italian. Although Swiss French is almost extinct and Swiss Italian is rarely used outside of family and friends. And the Swiss German isn't that different from each other.

Hollandaise... You're killing me!

For some reason I'm hungry now

SOMEONE FINALLY KNOWS

Swissmen or Swisswomen speak Swiss? hahhahhahaha no, they speak German, Italian, or French

Belgian must not be accepted. Fleming is the appropriate answer (they say "vlaming" in dutch).

What about the French half of Belgium - what do they call themselves?

If it wasn't the obvious I missed, it was the weirdness that couldn't be gotten. Liverpudlian--really? Who knows this stuff but ultimate nerds?

Nearly everyone in Britain knows a liverpudlian when they see one

if someone is speaking, what you believe to be english and have no idea what they are saying they are from liverpool

So true!

Or they're Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Yorkshire or pretty much anywhere except London

Sounds like some strange type of person encountered by Gulliver in his travels.

We have a Newcastle in Australia as well, and those dudes are called Novocastrians, though I'm not entirely certain that's the correct spelling

Someone from Newcastle England are called geordies' (why'I man)

Only got flemish 'cause my aunt's family is from Flanders

Isn't "Genovese" the adjective and "Genoan" is the noun? I tried "Liverpooligan" because I had no idea what the real answer was. I think I like Liverpooligan better than Scouser.

Essentially, these are Demonyms, both recognized & unofficial

It would be cool if someone from Naples was a "Napoleon".

I genuinely put that by accident because my brain was all stuffy.

Stay off the brandy Buck.

Could I have "Troian" added as an alternative for "Trojan"?

The adjective for Genoa is Genoese, not Genovese. I think you're confusing it with Genevese, the adjective for Geneva.

Two small points: A Filipino refers to a male from the Philippines; a woman is called a Filipina. Second, I always thought people from Paris were called Parisites.

Filipino can be men or women. Filipinas are just women. Standard gender bias in the Spanish language.

It is Parisian. Anything else would be stupid since we all say "parisien" in French...

Collect the bag marked (Sense of Humour) on your way out.

hahaha +2 Mal

So not "Parigot" then?

i think pinoy should be accepted

You do realize what Parisites sounds like, right?

I think that was the joke.

YOu should accept Philippino for Philippines

how about pinoy?

What a great quiz! As a British person I knew the funny little British city ones, as a half Italian I knew Genovese (and thanks for accepting that) and as a lifelong student of the USA I got the rest. (I did have to look up the Michigan UP answer, but having already read about that place I did know it was something like Yoo-Pee-er..

If you go to Purdue, Notre Dame or Butler you're not still a Hoosier, are you?

aren't people from Spain called Spanish?? In Spanish we have the same word! (Español)

A Spanish guy or a Spaniard, a Polish guy or a Pole, a Danish guy or a Dane, a British guy or a Brit.

Supertramp - it's really Briton - Brit is shorthand.

I kind of knew it was a yooper, but couldn't get the spelling right, kept trying combinations with a U. No clue for those English nicknames.

Yeah more spellings would be appreciated. I tried Yoper, Yuper, Yewper, Yupper, Eweper, Youper, Uper...

Only got Trojan cause i red a story about troy recently

Was it about the Trojan horse, by any chance?

Trojan isn't a good name for someone from troy because it means the same as a computer virus.

You do realize that the virus name comes from the city, right? It's called a Trojan virus because of the Trojan Horse story.

OHHHH!!! I always figured the actual Trojan Horse was named after the computer virus...

You had yooper for UP why not troll for LP? lol

under the bridge (mackinaw) a troll lives under the bridge.

anybody else got every one right? cause i did...not bragging or anything. Just saying! :)

O live in MI, but I've never heard the term "yooper"

Can you accept spouse for liverpool(slang)

Is it bad that I live in Michigan and have never heard anyone referred to as a Yooper?

Well, I'd never heard of Yooper. But then, I live in New Zealand.

Yeah, it's kind of bad.

Can I have 'Moscovite' and/or 'Moscovian' for 'Muscovite'?

There are.

Also, was "automagically" a typo?

That would defeat the point of asking about the people who live in the specific region, now wouldn't it?

For Los Angeles, it didn't accept: an "incredibly stuck-up, narcissistic, materialistic, soulless bitch." I'm from San Francisco. I feel strongly.

Los Angeles is not located in Marin County. Try again.

I tried that one for the Paris question. No luck either.

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Just Scouse should be accepted... never heard anyone called a "scouser" but I have heard people from Liverpool describe themselves as a just plain "scouse"

Absolutely +1.

I've never heard someone from Poland being called a Pole. I've only heard them being called a Polock/Polack.

Then apparently your education derives entirely from jokes.

I've always seen it as Bromley for those from Birmingham.

You should accept canook or canoock as spelling

What are you on aboot?

I tend to disagree. The first time I heard this usage I was in Ireland on holiday when an Irishman said "So your a scouse", I had not heard the expression before, I was 6 years old, and I took umbrage at being called something that I didn't know what it was. I was from Blackpool a whole 30 miles away from Liverpool. In my many years since I have heard 'Scouse' used this way more times than I've had hot dinners........ and I've had a few.

Pro tip: never go to anywhere south of the United States and say you're an "American". There's a reason why the Spanish demonym is "estadounidense".

This is absolutely horrible advice. I'm sitting in my 50th country today. I get asked a lot where I am from. If I want to get confused looks I will tell people I am from the States, the United States, the US, the USA, or Virginia.
If I want an instant look of recognition, then I will say I am American or from America.

Finally, Spanish for American is Americano. Estadounidense is a synonym. Type the latter into Google translate and guess what the translation is.

To be fair dasubergeek probably forgot that there's quite a lot of world that could be descriibed as "south of the United States", but s/he meant Latin America. Actual Spaniards (ha!) would probably not instantly recognise estadounidense either.

^^that's a little culturally chauvinistic of you isn't it kalba? just because the US has dominated the world to the extent where 'American' has become the standard demonym for someone from the US doesn't make it correct. Imagine if people just started referring to Chinese people as Asians and everybody else became something different. It'd be a little absurd wouldn't it? Asian refers to anyone from the Asian continent, just as American should refer to anyone from the Americas. Like dasubergeek says, there are lots of people in Latin America who will call you out if you use the word 'americano' to refer exclusively to the United States, as they are also from the Americas. As an aside, I don't think Google Translate (a US-based company might I add) is a credible source for establishing synonyms in a foreign language.

powdamonkey, with due respect, that's ridiculous. It's not in any way chauvinistic of me to state that in at least 49 non-American countries, people refer to Americans as Americans and are confused if you try to be "correct." It's not that Americans insist on one way and the rest of the world disagrees with them; it's that the entire world understands this word to mean one thing and then a few belligerent goobers insist on finding a reason to be offended. You don't want to use a word correctly, you want to change the meaning of a word to your own chauvinistic ends.

Sorry kalba, I was probably a little rude in my previous post. No intention for offence to be taken, I'm only up for a bit of friendly discussion. That said, I wouldn't say my ends are chauvinistic. They may not currently be the most common form in usage but they're certainly geographically correct. The way I see it, of course a great portion of the world sees people from the US as Americans, but language is constantly changing and there are a lot of Latin Americans (who I've met in Colombia, Nicaragua and Guatemala, amongst other places) who will refuse to call someone from the US an American, because they see it as a relic of US imperial domination that they can simply claim and use the demonym for two entire continents. So whilst yes, American is the term in most common usage, I certainly don't think it's fair to say that only a bunch of belligerent goobers (I actually laughed when I read this, might have to steal it!) want to have a conversation about change.

powda, I wasn't offended. I just disagreed with what you said. Yes language is living in dynamic. And I, like QuizMaster, have never actually visited South America before though I've been all over the rest of the world. Given that language is dynamic and about common usage, I maintain it's *more* accurate to call Americans Americans as this is the common usage of the word and has been for hundreds of years. If some disgruntled Colombians want to object to that, that's fine, but let's understand that this has nothing to do with being "correct" and everything to do with politics. The people trying to subvert the language to their own self-serving (chauvinistic) ends are those trying to change the meaning of the word, not those who are just going along with centuries of common usage. It's like the Saudis who now refuse to call the Persian Gulf the Persian Gulf. Even on old *Arab* maps, it is labeled as such. But now they insist on "Arabian Gulf" because of politics.

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I can confirm that, generally, in Latin America, people dislike Americans calling themselves "Americano", mostly for hitorical/political reasons. They will most likely understand what you mean, but you will be perceived as an obnoxious individual. So, if you ever find yourself in Latin America, try to use "estadounidense" (or "gringo" if you have a sense of humour about yourself)

Go Skyrim for helping me with the Breton answer!

more people knew Liverpudlian than Scouser? surprising to me

I did a quiz with all the nationalities of the world, you can check it at my profile.

Yankee was a common pejorative for Americans favored by the British around the time of the Revolutionary War... it was reclaimed by Americans who used the term in self-descriptions proudly.

I can't delete your comment but I will say that it makes no sense at all.

I often hear it as Yank, too. Doesn't bother me either way.

Canadians don't say canuck; I don't, no one I know does. It's something Americans like to think is cute, but it's just annoying.

I have heard the use of 'Canuck' as a derogatory term here in Australia. In fact in the Northern Territory I witnessed a fight between a Canadian guy and a Queenslander over the snarled usage of the term.

Who won?

Slang with positive connotations. If they see a beautiful Filipino woman they might refer to her as "Pinay."

Got quite a lot but disappointed that it took me so long to get trojan.

The Arizonian(?) city is being referred to, yes.

Have you seriously called Phoenix (1.5 m) a TOWN?

I missed Canadian *facepalm*

Should make an "Escanaba in da Moonlight" quiz

United States citizens call themselves Americans, but Americans are all that live in America which is a CONTINENT. They should be called US citizens. In Spanish we have a word that makes it all easier "estadounidenses" it is also harder than "americanos" but it is correct.

There are two continents of the Americas: North America and South America. Even if there was only one continent called America, that doesn't mean anything as it's possible to have two places that use the same demonym. For example residents of both the US state of Georgia and the Caucasian country of Georgia are called Georgians. There is no conflict here. Your argument is dumb. American is a demonym understood and commonly used to refer to people from the United States of America in approximately 196 countries around the world. The Spanish word for American is Americano. Capslock does not improve the accuracy of your assertions.

Knew Liverpudlian but in all the spelling variations I tried I always stuck in an extra d. Still doesn't look right with only one. I was probably thinking of Lilliputian and mixing the two.

When you update, you should add Porteño for Buenos Aires.

It's not illogical at all it is common, broadly understood convention. Do you feel it is illogical to call people from the United States of Mexico "Mexican?" How about referring to people from the US state of Georgia as "Georgian?" This is just stupid. Besides, things from North America are North American, things from South America are South American, things from either can be unambiguously described as "from the Americas," but American for centuries has been commonly understood to mean from the USA. It's about conveying meaning in a way that you will be understood and there's nothing wrong or illogical about it.

Yes, for the sake of clarity, since "American" is SO much more commonly used to refer to things from the country so commonly called "America" for short, it would be vastly superior to refer to things from North and South America as "from the Americas." To do otherwise you would almost have to wish to be deliberately confusing or antagonistic, and I don't see what the point of that is.

QuizWol, cut & paste from Wikipedia for your convenience: English use of the term American for people of European descent dates to the 17th century, with the earliest recorded appearance being in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survey of the West Indies in 1648. In English, American came to be applied especially to people in British America and thus its use as a demonym for the United States derives by extension.
2019 - 1648 = 371 years, or nearly 4 centuries.

I sure hope you are also referring to Germans as FRGermans, to Mexicans as USMexicans, to most Koreans as ROKoreans, and to the Chinese as PRChinese. Otherwise you'd probably look like a bit of a hypocritical muggins.

Lived in LA for 10 years and never knew Angeleno lmao.