All-New Dewey Teaser: Mackem and tackem

Quite understandably, perhaps, a grand total of none of you accepted last week's Dewey Teaser challenge and decided that you had nothing better to do than to comb through 154 pages of Table 2 looking for the occurrence of tiny typographic symbols that may or may not be there. But we think we're ready to confirm that there's only the one US place name listed in Table 2 that requires the use of a diacritic, and that's in New Mexico. T2—78966 Doña Ana County, we salute you. For this week's teaser, we're going to stay in the general vicinity of Table 2, and invite you to consider T2—4144 Glasgow City, T2—42496 Birmingham City, T2—42733 Manchester City, T2—42753 Liverpool City, and T2—42876 Newcastle upon Tyne City. Fine British cities, all; but also distinguished by the fact that their inhabitants go by collective names (Glaswegians, Brummies, Mancunians, Liverpudlians [or Scousers], and Geordies) that aren't directly derived from the modern name of the place. Is this a peculiarly British phenomenon? Or are there equivalent instances elsewhere, for instance in the US? Well, we already thought of one: the Hoosiers of T2—772 Indiana. But we're sure you can enlighten us further.

Comments

[Joe]

Sooners and Knickerbockers, off the top of my head.

[Giles Martin]

I used to live in the larger Newcastle (T2--9442) -- the one that is perhaps the busiest coal port in the world, and to and from which millions of tons of coals are carried each year. Coal (553.24) is no longer mined there, but in places inland, but it's named after Newcastle upon Tyne because coal was about the first thing that Europeans saw when they arrived, because the coal seams come to the surface there at the northern edge of the Sydney Basin. The local name for inhabitants of that city is Novocastrians.

[Kate Thompson]

Inhabitants of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (T2--71622) are referred to as Haligonians.

[Dianne]

How about the Yoopers from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?