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.

Yeah...haven't you ever seen Goldmember? "There are two things I hate: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures...and the Dutch!"

Yep, I had a neighbor from the Netherlands, and she had a bumper sticker that said, "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much!" ;}

@loganite That is my Dutch friend's favourite saying.

You could call a person from the Netherlands a Dutchman.

or a Dutchwoman ^^.

An airborne Dutchman?

He would be the Flying Dutchman.

And if he was a frycook?

the Frying Dutchman!

My 1st guess was Nederlander.

and Romansh

As someone once said to me "Learn to speak American!".

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

An inhabitant of the Netherlands is called a Dutchman or a Dutchwoman. An inhabitant of Flanders is called a Fleming or a Belgian ;). Just look it up if you don't take my word for it :P.

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!

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

WEEGIE

I second that - Please accept scouse

Well said.

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)

Gringo actually just means any white person, not necessarily an American

Not white Mexicans though.

Yankee could work though, though possibly New England specifically

Gringo does work for white Latin Americans, too.

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

ha i missed AMERICAN XD

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

Europeans are not very good at geography, trust me.

Or... choose to be ignorant. That's another way to go.

Never trust a person who says "Trust Me"

Let's not trust you then!

If you hypocrites saw a comment that Americans weren't good at geography you'd be standing up applauding. I used to object to such statements because I thought that Americans and Europeans were essentially equal in this regard. Then I spent the last two years traveling around Europe and the level of ignorance people here have about geography, even of their own continent, is simply shocking. I never encountered this back in the States.

But... whatever...

Didn't know any of the American ones.

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've got to be kidding me. I lived in Manhattan Beach for 11 years and heard it all the time. Especially on the news. Its VERY common.

I'm from New Zealand and I have heard of Angeleno.

YOu should accept Philippino for Philippines

how about pinoy?

not when your stoned!

So is your phobia

Divantilya, Filipino IS an English word. Regardless of it's origins, Filipino is the proper name for a person from the Phillippines.

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?

Hoosier is like official. That is why my dude.

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.

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.

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.

funniest thing i've heard all day.

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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"

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.

It was in at least four political TV ads yesterday on Fox 11.

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.

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.

Maybe you just haven't spent enough time in those places to be familiar with the regions and the demonyms associated with them. I saw so many housing ads in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, posted by Indians who insisted on certain people (Keralites only!!), here in Visayas (the Philippines) people are definitely proud of being Cebuano and don't even speak the same language as those from Manila, the Belgian I met in Denmark identified himself first as Flemish, my 3rd year Spanish teacher at University identified himself as Basque, all the Saudis I ever met in the six years I spent there were *very* cognizant of different territorial claims by various tribes within the kingdom.. Wadi Ad-Dawasir is the domain of the Dossarys, Rashidis reign supreme in Ha'il, Sharifs hold sway in Mecca, and the AlSauds power base is of course Riyadh and Diriyah, etc. People would identify as being from Nejd, or the Hejaz, or from Shiite Qatif all the time.
Maybe your considered opinion wasn't well considered.

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.

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.