Date:    Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:35:18 -0500
<br>From:    Larry Horn  laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: connecticut folk
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<br>At 11:09 AM -0800 3/6/98, Peter Richardson wrote:
<br>   can anyone tell me if there's a name for people from connecticut?
<br>   (connecticutians?  connecticutters?)  not finding anything in my
<br>   dictionaries...
<br> 
<br> Larry Horn's sure to know. I'd guess "Nutmeggers." ANd I can hear the
<br> laughter already.
<br> 
<br> Peter
<br>
<br>Au contraire, Peter (and Lynne (and others who might wish to know)).  This
<br>is the second time this week I was asked, though; my daughter raised the
<br>same question on Wednesday and I didn't know how to answer her either,
<br>although I mentioned having heard "Connecticutters" on a number of
<br>occasions (and usually wincing when I did).  I think "people from
<br>Connecticut" is often used, but that doesn't really answer the question.
<br>No, "Nutmeggers" is not the term, except possibly as a nonce
<br>faute-de-mieux, and I suspect most around here consider "Connecticutters"
<br>mieux.  Maybe someone from Greenwich would prefer to be known as a
<br>"Connecticutty."
<br>
<br>Disappointingly,
<br>Larry the Conn-man
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