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Nevada: Nevadan New Hampshire: New Hampshirite New Hampshireman or New Hampshirewoman, Granite Stater, Granite Boys [42] New Jersey: New Jerseyan New Jerseyite New Mexico: New Mexican Spanish: Neomexicano, neomexicana, Neomejicano, neomejicana [43] New York: New Yorker Knickerbocker [44] [45] Spanish: Neoyorquino, neoyorquina North Carolina
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
A barbarous name (Latin: nomen barbarum; pl. nomina barbara) is a meaningless (or seemingly meaningless) word used in magic rituals. The term barbarous comes from the Greek barbaroi ( Ancient Greek : βάρβαροι ), meaning one to whom a pure Greek dialect is not native; one who is not a proper Greek, ( barbarians ).
Pronunciation used for the other places with this name Montpelier, Virginia: mont-pə-LEER / m ɒ n t p ə ˈ l ɪər / Moscow, Idaho: MOSS-koh / ˈ m ɒ s k oʊ / [n 23] Also a place in Tennessee Mount Desert Island: diz-URT / d ɪ ˈ z ɜːr t / [n 24] Munday, Texas: MUN-dee / ˈ m ʌ n d i / Mulino, Oregon: mə-LYNE-oh / m ə ˈ l aɪ n oʊ ...
On the eve of Election Day, more than 11,300 mail-in ballots needed signatures cured in Clark County, and more than 1,800 needed fixing in Washoe County, the Nevada secretary of state's office ...
The use of a full (orally released) rather than syllabic pronunciation of /ən/ in the sequence /-tən/, in words like "kitten" or "mountain", is a minor but noted variant reported in the West, for example among some Californians and younger, female Utah speakers; [12] thus, kitten as [ˈkʰɪʔən] in addition to more General American ...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A state board wants to change the name of a mountain peak in eastern Nevada's Great Basin National Park to more appropriately recognize a geological area important to a native ...