Talk:demonym

Rare?

Is it actually considered rare usage in the context of an inhabitant of a land? --George2001hi 21:13, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Exactly.  Done WikiWinters (talk) 10:26, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

I vote to change the example sentence

I'm on my phone, from memory the example sentence is currently this:

"Why is it that people from the United States use American as their demonym." (Emphasis on "their" in original.)

As a native English speaker, I have actually asked myself this question many times, but with "our" as the word in italics. It's a surprisingly good question, but it's such a bad example for a dictionary that I had to read the sentence three times. To be fair, I'm on my phone, but "United States use American" looks so strikingly similar to "United States of America" that my brain filled in the latter twice, making the sentence ungrammatical, so I read it three times.

How about this:

"The same one woman from England might refer to herself using at least three common demonyms: English, British, or Brit."

That's a suggestion that includes both "British" and "Brit", which is possibly important to point out, because Brit is almost always a noun. Or we could go simple:

"The most common demonym for people from Switzerland is Swiss." 209.6.225.171 08:39, 25 May 2019 (UTC)