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I studied Latin in Newcastle and definitely heard "Novocastrian", but I'm certainly an outlier. I can't imagine any Geordie you're going to meet in St James' Park is likely to use the term.

Mancunian, Glaswegian, Geordie, Liverpudlian and Scouser, and Bajan are all commonly used. I have never heard the ones for Leeds or Wolverhampton and I assume they're silly back-formations like Novocastrian. Malagasy seems to be a proper term both for a language and a people, according to Wikipedia, though it's not one I'm especially familiar with. I have no idea about "Haligonian" or the Pittsburgh ones.



I studied all school subjects in Newcastle, and know a great many people from the area who didn't even get to non-signalling-language level of schooling, yet staggeringly, are aware of the specific name for people from Newcastle; you're not an outlier. It's not widely used, but it's very well known.


Here people in Tasmania are colloquially called Taswegians in honour of Glasgow.Tasmanian is proper but I would like to see Van Demons catch on in deference to the dutch name.


That's pretty condescending. Plenty of geordies are familiar with the term novocastrian.

edit to add: Not a term in common usage though, granted.


I lived in Halifax for 15+ years and Haligonian is almost universally used.




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