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Cajun. (US) A person from Louisiana (mainly the southern portion of the state); derived from 'Acadian'. Canuck. A person from Canada. [9] Capixaba. People born in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo are called this nickname. Carioca. (Brazil) A person from the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Bolton. Trotters (originally a football term, it is now used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) Bo'ness. Bo'neds (pejorative) Bournemouth. Coffin Dodgers (due its popularity as a retirement area) Bradford. Bradfordians, Bradistanis (pejorative) Bramley.
City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada. Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases , slogans , sobriquets , and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...
Makoko is an informal settlement across the 3rd Mainland Bridge located on the coast of mainland Lagos, Nigeria. A third of the community is built on stilts along the lagoon and the rest is on the land. The waterfront part of the community is largely harboured by the Egun people who migrated from Badagary and Republic of Benin and whose main ...
Slaney: Irish meaning "river of health". Tay: Celtic river goddess Tawa (Tava, Tatha, "the silent one") [6] Tambre: From Tamaris with the same root that Tamar. Thames: Latin "Tamesis" from Brythonic meaning "dark river". The Thame and Tamar, and probably the three rivers called Tame, have a similar etymological root.