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Nicknames for Lexington and Louisville celebrate the Bluegrass Region's horse farms and the state's most famous horse race, the Kentucky Derby, held at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Bardstown – Bourbon Capital of the World [3] Bellevue – B-town; Benham – The Little Town That International Harvester, Coal Miners, and Their Families Built [4]
Kentucky: Kentuckian Corncracker, [28] Kentuckyan Louisiana: Louisianian Louisianan French: Louisianais Spanish: Luisiano, luisiana Maine: Mainer Down Easter or Downeaster, [29] Mainiac, [30] Yankee (rare) Maryland: Marylander Massachusetts: Massachusettsan
Pennsyltucky is a slang portmanteau of the names of the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It is used to characterize—usually humorously, but sometimes deprecatingly—the rural part of Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically applied to the local people and culture of its mountainous ...
A recent study is revealing popular slang in the commonwealth. See how Kentucky favorites compare to popular terms in the U.S.
Getty Images The locals of Cincinnati use slang terms and phrases that have been part of the local culture for so long, nobody stops to ask why. Once they move away from home, they realize they've ...
There is a connection to bluegrass music, though: In 1938, Kentucky musician Bill Monroe named his band the Blue Grass Boys in homage to his home state, going on to become a major influence in ...
A diversity of earlier Southern dialects once existed: a consequence of the mix of English speakers from the British Isles (including largely English and Scots-Irish immigrants) who migrated to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular 19th-century elements also borrowed from the London upper class and enslaved African-Americans.
(US) A rural person with a "glorious lack of sophistication" (from the slang term for "peanut") Guajiro (Cuba) A rural person from Cuba. Hillbilly (US) A rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia or the Ozarks. Redneck (US) A rural white person. There are varying possible etymologies for this term. Primarily used to denote lower-class rural ...