10 December 2023

Connecticuters in LCDGT

I am a bit skeptical about the value of the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms vocabulary (LCDGT). While there are demographic terms like Nebraskans and Californians that are widely used to describe people from those places, some of the terms being proposed for the vocabulary seem like a stretch, for example, Albanians (New York State) for the residents of Albany, New York. And then I saw an article in today's New York Times about Connecticut doing a rebranding. The governor and others are worried that people see Connecticut as a somewhat boring waystation between New York City and Boston. The author of the article opines that residents do not even know what to call themselves. Are they Connecticuters? Connecticutians? Connecticutites? So I checked LCDGT and the preferred term is Connecticut residents. The LCDGT record has references from Connecticuters, Connecticotians, and Connecticutensians, as well as from Nutmeggers, from the state nickname, The Nutmeg State.

Photo taken in Albany, N.Y., by an Alfredian

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