There are no rules in English. Ask the people from each country what they prefer
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Find what sounds most natural, if that can't be found, go with what sounds the least catastrophically unnatural.
Canada = Canadese (nuts fit in your mouth?)
The English Language, where the grammar is made up and the rules don't matter.
I can add:
[-er] New Zealander
Or just a different word completely. Dutch.
Pfft. The Dutch...
Odd way to spell Kiwi but you do you pal
New Zealander is the least odd sounding of the lot.
New Zealandish
New Zealandan
New Zealandese?
New Zealander is the least odd sounding of the lot.
New Zealandish
New Zealandan
New Zealandese?
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People from Indiana are called hoosiers - this, like many things in English, doesn't have a hard and fast rule... the sounds at the end of the word certainly impact it, but there are exceptions. Just ask a Peruvian.
Meanwhile there is no specific demonym for people from the united states, you can say american buy that would also include every other north and south american country
Seppos
Nobody calls Mexicans or Canadians Americans. Nobody calls Brazilians or Peruvians Americans. They maybe North Americans and South Americans but American means someone from the United States. The Canadians and Mexicans I know would be offended if I called them American.
Literally nobody who isn't a Latin American with a chip on their shoulder has a problem distinguishing Americans from "people who live on either north or south america"
I think the rest of the world calls them Freedum Dolts.
'Murican seems pretty unique and generally accurate. Just to be clear - that is a two syllable word.
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Afghani, Pakistani,
FYI, there's a little debate over this in the English language, but many would say that the proper demonyms are Afghan for the Pashtun ethnic group, and Afghanistani (or rarely Afghanese) for people from Afghanistan regardless of ethnicity.
Afghani is their currency.
I believe it comes from a discrepancy between the Persian and Pashto languages. Afghani being the correct term in Persian, and Afghan being the term in Pashto.
Afghani is pretty widely used in English, and even appears in some dictionaries, but many argue that it's not correct.
So a person is an Afghan, they eat Afghan food, wear Afghan clothing, have Afghan customs, and their currency is the Afghan Afghani (in case some other country ever adopts a currency called the Afghani and you need to differentiate between them)
Just attach "man" to the end of all of them for maximum offence.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude! Iβm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you do not. Also, Dude, βChinamanβ is not the preferred nomenclature. βAsian-Americanβ please.
- Walter Sobchak
Is that some weird shortening for People's Republic of Chinamen? Wouldn't that be too easy to confuse with Republic of Chinamen?
Portugalman
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I'm in Michigan, that makes me a Michigander. The rules are made up and the suffixes don't matter.
I'm a Connecticutian by birth. Though I've also heard someone call themselves Connecticuter once or twice, but never cared for that one.
Either one seems to break a lot of normal grammar/spelling rules.
I'm from South Dakota, I'm South Dakotant. It is what it is.
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