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The nickname for people from our area in the north west of England is a "lobby-gobbler", because we traditionally eat a lot of lobby, or lob-scouse.
Much in the way people from nearby Liverpool are called "scouse", the shortened form of "lobscouse", which comes from Norwegian lapskaus, Swedish lapskojs and Danish labskovs and the Low German Labskaus, and refers to a stew commonly eaten by sailors. In the 19th century, poorer people ate it as it was a cheap dish. Now we just like eating it. (and i'm sure there are more local terms for different areas within Liverpool)
In the town next to ours, Westhoughton, the people are called Cowyeds, pronounced "Cah-yeds", because once, legend has it, a cow got its head stuck in a new gate a farmer had installed - rather than damage the gate, he cut the cow's head off.
Do you have a unique nickname for people from your town or area?
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In Glaswegian, anyone from the highlands and/or the Isle of Skye (particularly if they spoke gaelic) was referred to as a "tcheuchter".
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Hey, Thor cracked a gag! That was funny.
Originally my area of East London was inhabited by Cockneys. I must look up origins.
Cockneys have mostly vacated London and spread out now into the surrounding counties around London - essex, kent and Herts. Less said about London the betta (fish).
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The Legion of Bub Worshippers.
There is Only One.
The day Beethoven visited our Savior:
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The nickname of my people has been traditionally "those who must not be named".
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You can call us Bubs, if you're into the whole brevity thing.
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