Names of inhabitants of the U.K.

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Just an odd thought:
People from Ireland are called Irish.
People from England are called Brits
People from Scottland are called Scots
So what do you call people from Wales? (Walians, Walites, Waleish, Wally's *shrug* )
 
No, no, no that just won't work. It would have to be called Welshland for that to work and that would be just plain silly.
 
People from England are called "English".

Perhaps a little geography lesson is in order. England, Scotland, and Wales form Great Britain. Great Britain plus Northern Ireland equals the United Kingdom. (The Republic of Ireland [Eire] is a separate country.) British refers to all citizens of the UK.
 
Aye, folk fae Scotland are called Scots
If they are fae Wales then they're Welshmen, or Welsh
Fae Eire they are called Irish or Irishmen

And if they are unfortunate enough to come fae England then they are called (CENSORED!)

Noo, if they were fae America? I couldnae put that intae words!
 
VR, i thought that people from Scotland were called Scotch.
 
What I want to know is why don't Canadians come from Canadia?

And what do you call people from Hongkong... Hongkonese?
 
This has reminded me of something that i find very anoying.

We are all aware of a certain name some people give to people from pakistan. I can type it because its agains tthe rules i think. You know the one: p*****s. This is very rude and seen as racist.

OK. so how is it not racist to call me a brit?

Its the same slangification of a countries name.
 
A person from Pakistan is a Pakistani. The shorter version was and is used as an abusive term.

If we weren't Brits would we be Britainies?
(Hit me baby one more time!)
 
It depends how the abbreviation is used. Calling someone a 'Brit' is never used in an insulting way (not in my experience, anyway) whereas people normally use the word 'Paki' in a derogatory and insulting way. Note that people who use the word often use it for anyone from the Indian sub-continent, and not just Pakistanis.

So you can't compare the two at all.
 
People from Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) are called Geordies. Those from Sunderland are Machums (it pains me to just say the word )

Scousers (not all of them steal...) are from Liverpool.

People form Hartlepool are called Monkey Hangers (absolute truth)

madness
 
And people from London are called Cockneys. From Manchester they are called Mancs (fairly obvious that one!) People from Leeds are called Loiners, but no-one outside Leeds seems to use that. From Birmingham they are called Brummies.

I never actually heard of Mackem until about three years ago, but now everyone seems to use it. This is despite me Mam being born and bred in Sun'lun - but she's always called herself a Geordie!

You read anything by Irving Welsh? His characters refer to people from Glasgow as 'Weedgies'. It took me a while to work that one out. Doh!
 
NNOOOOOO!!!!! You're only a cockney if you are born within the sound of the Bow bells. Roughly from Hackney down to Lambeth. I'm sure the folks in Hamstead Heath would be thoroughly offended at being called cockneys
 
Strictly speaking that is true, but the said Bow bells were in the Church of St.Mary in Bow, which was flattened in the Blitz. So the Luftwaffe made Cockneys extinct.
 
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