I now live in Doncaster, and so I'm a Doncastrian. I used to live in a pit village called Thurnscoe; people from there are called Thurnscovians. Such adjectives discribing the place where someone lives are rare in English - the only other local examples I can think of are Sheffielder and Pomfretian [Pontefract].
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LissaT
Pro - 01 Oct. 2008 @ 11:30:42
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lee954
- 02 Oct. 2008 @ 08:39:12
I still think that such adjectives are quite rare, I know for certain that they don't exist for Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Chesterfield or Scunthorpe.
Additionally, I suspect that maybe many of those that do exist are likely to be modern coinages. -
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isadora101
- 02 Oct. 2008 @ 10:01:08
I don't know how modern it is but when I was a child we used to call folk from Barnsley 'Barnsleyites'
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lee954
- 03 Oct. 2008 @ 08:53:06
I've never come across the term before. I know that people from Barnsley like to call themselves 'Tykes'; but since that term is also used to describe anyone from anywhere in Yorkshire, it's a bit confusing.
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- 29 Nov. 2008 @ 19:39:40
I thought people from Thurnscoe were called Smackheads
I disagree: I suspect that virtually every place has such names, but that as a whole they are known only to the people of that place and its immediate area. Her we have, for example, Cleethorpes - Meggie or Thorper, Grimsby - Grimbarian, Caistor - Castrian and Swallow - Swallovian (well, we could hardly be Swallowers!). Many such names are no doubt boringly derived like Sheffielder and Londoner, but others have the delight of going back to earlier names of the place sometimes close to and sometimes far removed from the current name.