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Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by galadima77(m): 7:18pm On Oct 23, 2015
searching4love:
WHAT IS THE DEMONYM FOR THE NATIVES OF Biafra

Lolz u wan twmpt me to yab ppl abi? I reject am
Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by galadima77(m): 7:18pm On Oct 23, 2015
searching4love:
WHAT IS THE DEMONYM FOR THE NATIVES OF Biafra

Lolz u wan tempt me to yab ppl abi? I reject am
Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by mignone(f): 7:20pm On Oct 23, 2015
deebsman1:
English language is constantly and continuously evolving while our own language is going in to extinction

I sincerely wonder why an average Nigerian disregards his/her mother-tongue to embrace the English language. even half-baked parents destroy the foundation of their kids' language learning skills with wrong version of the so-called English lang... i pray we learn soon

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Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by poik(m): 8:54pm On Oct 23, 2015
hensben:
Demonym (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; δῆμος dẽmos 'people, tribe', ὄνομα ónoma 'name') is a recently minted term. (Previously, the term gentilic had been referenced by the Oxford English Dictionary.) Demonyms are words that are used to identify residents or natives of a particular place. A 'demonym' is also derived from the name of that particular place.Examples of demonyms include Chinese for the natives of China, Swahili for the natives of the Swahili coast, and American for the natives of the United States of America (or sometimes for the natives of the Americas). Just as Americans may refer to two different groups of natives, some particular groups of people may be referred to by multiple demonyms. For example, the natives of the United Kingdom are the British, or the Britons. Demonyms are capitalized.

In languages other than English, a parallel demonym sometimes does not exist, which may lead to the use of an English demonym as a nickname or descriptive adjective of a group of people. The term has not been adopted by the Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

English widely includes country-level demonyms - such as "Ethiopian", "Guatemalan", "Japanese", and "French". But English much more rarely includes lower-level demonyms - such as "Seoulite", "Wisconsinite", "Chicagoan", and "Fluminense".Indeed, even some large cities such as Australia's Perth, and many other places, lack a commonly used and accepted "demonic". This poses a particular challenge to those toponymists who research demonyms.

Also, demonyms must be considered a subtype of adjectives and nouns used as appellations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym




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Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by EbiJUNIRO(m): 9:00pm On Oct 23, 2015
Really quite new... Jst Kent find it in MA Merriam Webster etc
Re: The Meaning Of Recently Found Word "Demonym" by Nobody: 9:22pm On Oct 23, 2015
Dottore:
This is a very nice post, very informative and scintillating. It's like someone has talked sense into the heads of mods that kept desecrating this noble forum with many meaningless celebrity poos at the expense of serious matters wasting away in other sections.

Meanwhile;
I got this on my profile by mistake:

"I believe that there is no god/God but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet."

Can someone help me get rid of it. The thought makes me feel sick. Save my Soul
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that was the oath you swore on Islamic section, remember?

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