Franconian Beer Message Board
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| Posted by Barry on 2016-11-20 06:06:54 |
| Interesting - I discount Franconian, as the number of English speakers who know this word could probably be counted on the fingers, etc., etc., and are all probably subscribers to this site. Seriously, I'm not sure that this list proves anything. I don't know about Maine or Colorado (probably like Franconian, too obscure for normal British English usage) but most of the others are also used to denote where a person comes from - i.e. 'He is a Norwegian', so may have come to be used as adjectives by transference of ideas. It would be necessary to examine the origin of such words to get to the bottom of this but I don't think that it demonstrates the use of inflection in British English. As a native of Manchester, I could be referred to as a 'Mancunian' but that's a real makey-uppy word based on Latin, like Liverpudlian. |
| Followups: |
 Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 03:06:11 |
| Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 03:10:19 |
| Maine by Barry on 2016-11-21 03:24:55 |
| Maine by Nick B. on 2016-11-21 04:38:34 |
| Maine by Nick B. on 2016-11-21 04:49:31 |
| Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 06:59:35 |
| Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 07:11:15 |
| Maine by Barry on 2016-11-21 09:18:40 |
| Maine by Barry on 2016-11-21 09:20:12 |
| Maine by Nick B. on 2016-11-22 03:16:15 |