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angelenx

Angelenos definitely widely used

Anyone who participated in the Billy Joel listening thread knows about Los Angelenos and how they like to go into garages for exotic massages

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weegee ftw

― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:30 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's spelled weegie, and we hate it!

This is clearly a blind spot of mine (as is Billy Joel).

Google ngrams, comparing usage of New Yorkers, Bostonians and Angelenos. The latter two are closer than I would have guessed. Went for the singular rather than plural to avoid the New Yorker magazine giving it an unfair advantage. New Yorkers is still far ahead but interesting how it's plummeted since 2004.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Angelenos%2CNew+Yorkers%2CBostonians&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CAngelenos%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNew%20Yorkers%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBostonians%3B%2Cc0

I think last time I looked at Ngrams, the data ran out at 2010 so very pleased it now goes to 2019.

Hmm, not sure I trust the recent years' data. It's meant to be relative to the size of the corpus I think, but all seem to be plummeting too!

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Glaswegians%2CEdinburgers%2CScousers%2CBrummies%2C+Geordies&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CGlaswegians%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CEdinburgers%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CScousers%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBrummies%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CGeordies%3B%2Cc0