Date:  Mon, 5 Feb 1996 06:47:33 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: citizens of?



I often wondered if Paris natives realize that other folk consider them

Parasites?

People from Tampa, FL as Tampons;



Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL

crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com

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>Dennis--

>    I did not mention it, but Muriel and I lived in Urbana, too (since

>we still own our house there, we are at least still taxpayers). Ron Cowan

>also lives in Urbana, as do C. C. Cheng and Eyamba Bokamba. You did not

>mention on which side of the great divide you live.

>    On a different tack, Allan Walker Read was doing a paper a few years

>ago on names for people from various places, and contacted me to find out

>what the local nomenclature was there (here in Tucson, for example, one sees

>"Tucsonans" mentioned frequently in the newspaper, as "Chicagoans" are in

>Chicago). I informally surveyed a number of long-time residents and natives,

>and even put in a letter to the editor soliciting information, but no one

>had a name for a person from either community, or even seemed to feel a

>lexical gap.

>

>    --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)

>

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