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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: Re: [MLN] Edinburgher?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:13:02 +0000
In-Reply-To: <008501c58ced$ef5e9c60$7fa49643@munkqoke32ujeuf>


There is always someone isnt there Frank, just when we thought we had a
winning idea

Liz (VBG)

>From: "Maisie Egger" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [MLN] Edinburgher?
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:43:13 -0700
>
>Hate to pop your balloon, Frank, but (Edin) - BURGHers would not be
>pronounced the same as in PittsBURG, which would segue to
>burger-hamburger....because the pronunciation is "off," if indeed Edinburgh
>folk are Edinburghers (Edinburrers!) as an Edinburgher lister noted.
>
>Afraid you'll have to look elsewhere then to start up a new franchise, plus
>you'd need pots of money to begin with as I believe to buy into a
>McDonald's franchise used to cost a minimum of $100,000 - or so I was told!
>
>Maisie
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Easton" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:58 AM
>Subject: RE: [MLN] Edinburgher?
>
>
>>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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