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if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Pink Paisley Started conversation Feb 28, 2012
Lancashire = Lancastrian
But Suffolk?
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Icy North Posted Feb 28, 2012
There isn't one for Surrey. Google throws up one Surrovian, but it's used jokingly.
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Feb 28, 2012
Dunno. But they have a fringe on top.
And people from Suffolk are called 'Mutants'.
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Icy North Posted Feb 28, 2012
No, they're 'Suffolkers'
Dickens 'David Copperfield' xi. 117 "The men generally spoke of me as‥‘the young Suffolker’".
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Secretly Not Here Any More Posted Feb 28, 2012
I think the correct term is "unfortunate".
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Dea.. - call me Mrs B! Posted Feb 28, 2012
I have asked Hubby, who is from Norwich, what he would call someone from his county and he has Nor-folking-idea. 
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 29, 2012
Blefescuians?
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Hoovooloo Posted Feb 29, 2012
"Suffolkers"???
I suppose the female ones who have children are...
... mothersuffolkers?
Yippy ki yay, mothersuffolker.
I think I've just found my new favourite swear word.
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Hoovooloo Posted Feb 29, 2012
And can I also say apropos of very little, that a man from Norfolk has just suffocated, and a man from Suffolk has just norfocated.
And a man called Derek has just defecated.
And it's goodnight from me...
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Icy North Posted Feb 29, 2012
Bring back the Two Ronnies! 
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Feb 29, 2012
Is there a ball bearing factory in Suffolk?
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
You can call me TC Posted Feb 29, 2012
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Surreptitious?
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Feb 29, 2012
We are "Devonians", allthough most of us from Plymouth see Devon as "other" and consider ourselves "Plymouthians".
FB
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Feb 29, 2012
How do we get Salopians out of Shropshire?
('You can take a Salopian out of Shropshire...')
Or Cantabrians from Cambidgeshire, Oxonians Oxfordshire...
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Icy North Posted Feb 29, 2012
Salop is a revival of an old Norman contracted spelling of the name Shropshire.
Cantab (for Cambridge degrees) comes from the Latinised Cantabrigiensis, from Cantabrigia ‘Cambridge’.
Similarly, Oxon is the Latinised Oxoniensis (Oxford)
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Feb 29, 2012
Well depends where in the city oyu are from. That tens to be considered more of a pejorative term. Though most of us proudly claim it now!
FB
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
swl Posted Feb 29, 2012
Do you know where this lot are from -
Mackems
Scummers
Yam Yams
Weegies
Brochers
Scallys
Smoggies
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
U14993989 Posted Feb 29, 2012
I know the first two Sund... & Soton, the rest I would have to look up.
if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
swl Posted Feb 29, 2012
I reckon this would be a cracking guide entry.
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if you are from Cornwall, you are Cornish. but Surrey?
- 1: Pink Paisley (Feb 28, 2012)
- 2: Icy North (Feb 28, 2012)
- 3: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Feb 28, 2012)
- 4: Icy North (Feb 28, 2012)
- 5: Secretly Not Here Any More (Feb 28, 2012)
- 6: Dea.. - call me Mrs B! (Feb 28, 2012)
- 7: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Feb 29, 2012)
- 8: Hoovooloo (Feb 29, 2012)
- 9: Hoovooloo (Feb 29, 2012)
- 10: Icy North (Feb 29, 2012)
- 11: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Feb 29, 2012)
- 12: You can call me TC (Feb 29, 2012)
- 13: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Feb 29, 2012)
- 14: swl (Feb 29, 2012)
- 15: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Feb 29, 2012)
- 16: Icy North (Feb 29, 2012)
- 17: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Feb 29, 2012)
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