Stand In The Place Where You Live

[plumtreeblossom]

So we have Mainers, Vermonteers, New Hampshirites, New Yorkers, and Pennsylvanians. What is the correct designation for a person who lives in Massachusetts, other than a "Masshole?"

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[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Bay Staters. Massachusetts is actually a Commonwealth, but let that pass, because 'Commonwealthies' sounds really stupid.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yes, and "Commonwealthies" sounds doubly stupid because there are other Commonwealths.

Bay Staters isn't quite it. That's a nickname, like Hoosiers or Tar Heels. Yet I've never heard anybody say "Massachusetters" or anything like that. If I had to coin one, I'd go for "Massachucians." Sounds all ritzy n'stuff.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Pennsylvania's a Commonwealth too.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Every time I see that userpic I want to snuggle that adorable doggie. She is the cutest thing ever! :-)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, I know! She really is a beaut. Check these out, there's even some baby pictures in here...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Squeee! Corgi pup!

[ron_newman]

Bay Stater.

(Do people really say "Vermonteer" ?)

[zzbottom.livejournal.com]

not in Vermont, we don't

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

On Google they do, though. That there's where I got it.

[skygoodwill.livejournal.com]

Is that THE paperclip?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

That paper clip userpic is from a defunct trade-up project that I started but never finished. The actual photo is from the Staples catalogue.

[skygoodwill.livejournal.com]

Yes I do recall. :)

[dpolicar]

No idea what's correct.
I use "Massachutian" in speech and "resident of Massachusetts" in writing.

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

I spell it Massachusan. But that's only in my head; I haven't had occasion to write it down, nor do I recall seeing anyone else's solution written down until today.

[saturn939.livejournal.com]

I've wondered the same about Connecticut. Apparently, the answer is Nutmegger.

-Dee

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Nutmegger? That's weird!

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Good to know (now that I'm down here in Bridgeport)...

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I've referred to myself as a Nebraskan several times but never thought about Massachusetts. Probably becuase I tend to revert to "Bostonian"

[ron_newman]

What about someone from the state where Chicago is located? An Illinoisy?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Illinoian, but beowabbit will know. He's a native son of there. I like Illinoid, myself.

[beowabbit]

Illinoisian, pronounced ill-annoyin'.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

A person from Illinois is known as a "Sucker" - at least it was so in the time of Abe Lincoln, when one of the lines in his campaign song was "the pride of the Suckers, so lucky". Dont ask me where the designation started, but it was over 150 years ago that Lincoln ran for the Presidency.

[ron_newman]

My favorite such term is 'Michigander'.

[strangeanimal.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to "Haligonian" (Halifax, Nova Scotia) myself.

[mistergoat.livejournal.com]

I actually went on to this post specifically to mention the term "Michigander," being one myself.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Liberal? ;)

[mistergoat.livejournal.com]

Like Tom Finneran, or like Mitt Romney?

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not saying it's necessarily appropriate, but the question was, "What are people from Massachusetts called?" :-p

[mistergoat.livejournal.com]

Fair enough--I was pretty much being a smart-ass.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It's always been "Bay Stater" for me. "Masshole" is relatively new, and very unflattering. I think it started during the Reagan years at just about the time that "Liberal" suddenly and for the first time became a dirty word. What people do not realize about us is that over time we are generally proved to be correct.