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What about taking some of the names off this page? http://www.everything2.com/title/Demonyms%2520of%2520the%2520United%2520Kingdom (properly cited, of course) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.118.103 ( talk) 15:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
What about Oxford and Cambridge? And Orkney?
What about regional terms like Hants for Hampshire?
Should some distinction be made between nicknames and demonyms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.118.103 ( talk) 15:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
'Leodsian' gives no results in Google bar copies of this page. Can anyone confirm it?
http://fwordinfrance.blog.com/1033636/
Restepc ( talk) 22:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
the "nicknames"of the irish are nt nicknames but racial slurs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.67.25 ( talk) 14:22, 23 April 2008
I can't actually find any citations on this page, and a number of the terms that I understand appear to be offensive; just put up a couple of notices, as I'm not entirely sure that there are inoffensive regional nickname terms on here. Although I understand that regional nicknames do tend to be offensive, I think that there are also quite a few non-offensive terms. ~ Cortal UXTalk? 15:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
This whole entry is about 90% fiction / personal opinion / unsourced / etc.
And yet the header reads:
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So some homophobe twot's made-up name for a resident of Brighton is headed for Wiktionary, is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.103.146 ( talk) 22:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
As others have already noted, there are several problems with the present list.
One common problem is apparently caused by confusion between a
demonym and a
nickname; as described on the relevant WP articles, they are entirely different kinds of names. Therefore any entry which is a demonym should not appear in the list.
How can I tell if all of the uncited terms are existent? (I am an American).-- 108.24.123.189 ( talk) 19:55, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
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