Date:    Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:48:23 -0500
<br>From:    Beverly Flanigan  flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: connecticut folk (revisited)
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<br>Not to sound too naive, but why Nutmeggers???
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<br>At 02:45 PM 3/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
<br> P.S.  Just checking on Nexis, I find two articles that USE (rather than
<br> mention) such a term, and in both cases, "Connecticutter" was the
<br> designation of choice.  One article on the history of the problem suggests
<br> that Nutmeggers is now more popular than the alternatives (of which
<br> Connecticutter and the rather implausible Connecticosian are listed).  And
<br> one article by card-carrying (if we had cards) ADS member William Safire
<br> (On Language, NYT Magazine, 6/6/82) portrays the earlier
<br> "Connecticutensian" (as in Yalensian) giving way to "Connecticutter", later
<br> reorthographized as "Connecticuter" (the chosen form of the Government
<br> Printing Office Style Manual, Safire notes).  Not the best occasion to
<br> reduce a geminate, I'd say.
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<br> Connecticuter than thou,
<br> Larry
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