Episode Synopsis "The Constitution State"

What do you call a person from Connecticut? Today we’d call them a Connecticuter or a Connecticutian (or, colloquially, a Nutmegger), but in a 1987 address etymologist Allen Walker Read announced that he’d also found these options: Connecticotian, used in 1702 by Cotton Mather Connecticutensian, used in 1781 by historian Samuel Peters Connectican, used in 1942 in a letter to the Baltimore Evening Sun Connecticutan, used in 1946 by book reviewer John Cournos Connecticutite, used in 1968 by an anonymous reviewer in Playboy He also found several jocular forms: Connecticutie, a pretty girl of Connecticut (used in 1938 by Frank...

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