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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: RE: [MLN] Edinburgher?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:42:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20050719155821.IYHK13703.priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net@frankqppodr8pv>


Love it! You could outstrip McDonalds - who of course may be Scots as well

Liz

>From: "Frank Easton" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: RE: [MLN] Edinburgher?
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:58:26 -0600
>
>Hi:
>
>At the risk of having everyone come down on me with pipes, machetes , and
>verbal abuse, I think that Edinburghers would be perfect. They could
>patent the name and franchise it all over the word, put a special sauce in
>it only known in Edinburgh, and make a small fortune ??!
>
>PLEASE, just a little off humour people.
>
>Frank Easton,
>A Canuck
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maisie Egger [mailto:]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:24 AM
>To:
>Subject: [MLN] Edinburgher?
>
>What is the label for a person from Edinburgh? Glasgow folk are
>Glaswegians; anyone from Liverpool is referred to as a Liverpudlian,
>Londoners are from London, and if from Dundee a Dundonian, and so on.
>
>Whilst growing up in Glasgow, I never heard anyone from Edinburgh being
>called an Edinburgher, as a Canadian person recently referred to them.
>Someone from Edinburgh was just "someone from Edinburgh." - not an
>Edinburgher, Edinburrian, etc.
>
>What do the "Edinburrians" say?
>
>Maisie
>
>
>


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