| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 7:11:06 AM | Can someone tell me what the official name is for a person from Edinburgh? For example, I'm from Brighton and am therefore a Brightonian.
Edinburghite sounds right to me, but nobody I've spoken to knows the answer and Google's not been any help thus far.
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 7:45:38 AM | Headtrauma, my ex was a scott, and a very generous guy.
My sister hubby was a yorkshireman, and a real tight git....and still is...
I dont know if there is a name for someone from Edinbrough, altough i suppose there must be... | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 7:49:45 AM | Edinburghian sounds about right to me.
so what am i if im from yorkshire?
does that make you a yorkie - but then people will confuse you with a snappy little dog or a truck drivers favorite chocky bar! lol | |
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| And the winner is....
Posted: 7/22/2006 7:51:22 AM | ...ArribaArribaAndale, for the suggestion Edinburgher. Don't know why I didn't think of that one!
For me it's a winner as it's the only name I found on any sort of 'official' website: http://www.visitscotland.com/library/famousedinburghers
So, thanks for that ArribaArribaAndale, another one of life's mysteries solved - I owe you a pint if you're even up this way.
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 11:36:25 AM | You know, I've lived in Edinburgh nearly my whole life and I'm still not sure exactly what we're called. Maybe we consider ourselves too posh to be referred to by anything.
By the way, I am most generous as is everyone else I know so fooks yous all!
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 11:57:22 AM | Its more applying the sterotypical scotsman (Or woman) as tightwad and being found annoying than causing any real outrage I did it for Willow..I love taking the Pi$$ out of all my Scottish mates face to face as they find it mildy annoying not outrageous behaviour at all...so like to see if anyone is out of touch enough with reality to get 'outraged' by my slanderous remarks against the great celtic race...(Or their sparse airing of the wallet!) | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 2:49:13 PM | well being from perth (scotland) not australia i have only come across glaswegian (glasgow),aberdonian (aberdeen),or fifer(fife)........have never heard any other name for people from edinburgh or other places in scotland.
but have come across a few tightwads in my time and not all scottish  | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 4:17:26 PM | after posting my first reply i went to yahoo answers as being scottish your question intrigued me,a few answers i got back say Edinburgers!!!!! so if thats true or false i dinnae ken lol
a few others that made me laugh were,
alcholic......skinflint......***hole......Druggie knife wielding ,battered mars bar eating git.......scotburghers, no side salad thanks, just a keg a beer..........A Northern Barbarian.......   | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 4:25:42 PM | | I don't know about Edinburgh, but I know that where I am from we are either known as Southerners (which pretty much applies to most people from any of the coastal settlements from Brighton to Bournemouth) or more specifically for my city, So'toners (So'ton being the approved short hand for Southampton). Off course, if you come from Portsmouth / Pompey, So'toners are more often reffered to as Scum, though if you following the traditional naming of our football team, you could just call us Southampton folk Saints. | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 4:33:30 PM | ^^^^^ @ 'Scum'/Scummers..................... What I want to know is why/how the nickname 'Scummers' came about??
I get so much flack for living in Pompey and commuting to So'ton Uni | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 4:36:44 PM | | They became known as Scummers when the Dock workers in Southampton one year several decades ago decided to go on strike during the last time labour was in power (something about wages etc...). However instead of getting quite the impact they had wanted, what actually happened was the companies just shifted all the work to Pompey, doubling the workload for the people in Portsmouth. Thus the Pompey lads started reffering to Southampton as Scummers for such a low move. Then again, rivallry has existed between Southampton and Portsmouth as befits any two cities that are situated close together. People from Swansea and Cardiff are no different. | |
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Wulfie
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 6:05:12 PM | yes must admit after moving from scotland to portsmouth 18 years ago,the people hear aint very friendly,and cant understand the rivalry between the 2 (southampton and portsmouth.)
where as rangers and celtic is a religous thing. | |
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| 'Official' name for a person from Edinburgh?
Posted: 7/22/2006 6:34:07 PM | | Well as a Fifer (born and bred) I have been known to call people from Edinburgh Edinburgers, but it was more of a jokey term rather than and official name for them. But it has to be something and it might as well be Edinburger | |
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