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dmurray on July 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Man...

Tldr: because a previous name of the area was Mancunium. There are some more irregular demonyms discussed in the article, with slightly more detailed etymology.

xchip on July 10, 2017 [–]

Thanks for this, I wish every news here had a TL;DR post. In fact me myself I do it whenever I have a chance (most articles are 5% information and the rest 95% is just padding)

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