If someone from Ohio is called an Ohioan, from Arkansas an Arkansan,
and from SC a South Carolinian, what are the one word titles for
someone from:
Wyoming [ite or er]
Massachusetts [eteer? ian?]
Connecticut
Please provide proper documentation

Greetings Moliken,

I have discovered a few reputable Internet sources and a U.S.
government site that answers your query.


Wyoming - Wyomingite 
Massachusetts - Bay Stater
Connecticut - Connecticuter; Nutmegger 
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855542.html

Wyoming - Wyomingite 
Massachusetts - Bay Stater
Connecticut - Connecticuter
http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/american.htm

Wyoming - Wyomingite 
Massachusetts - Massachusettsan, Bay Stater
Connecticut - Connecticuter; Nutmegger
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1450700

And the United States government lists the following in their style manual:
Wyoming - Wyomingite 
Massachusetts - Massachusettsan
Connecticut - Connecticuter
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/2000/chapter_txt-5.html

I would take the latter as the definitive source. :)


Thanks for asking this very interesting question!

Best regards,
journalist-ga


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us gov't is probably the best source, and its answers make the most sense to me.