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TheBladeRoden

11-01-2005, 04:03 PM

What do you call someone from Hertfordshire?

A Hert?

Hertish?

Hertfordshirian?

Hertfordese?

Hertfordish?

scrape_medic

11-01-2005, 05:19 PM

Kurt_eh

11-01-2005, 06:31 PM

I think the bigger question is what does one call a person who left?

Hertless?

scrape_medic

11-01-2005, 06:45 PM

:lol

BrowderChick

11-01-2005, 06:56 PM

Leave off the H. :rollin:

scrape_medic

11-01-2005, 07:05 PM

we already do...:lol

who45

11-01-2005, 07:12 PM

excuse me miss is that your H down there :lol...yep gettin a little loopy...ok back to you're regular thread. :P

scrape_medic

11-01-2005, 07:39 PM

Can't leave that H on the floor ...that might be an 'azard.....blimey...theres another one

who45

11-01-2005, 07:40 PM

:lol

BritAngie

11-02-2005, 12:51 AM

hertfordshireman? don't know which is a bit embarressing as its the county to the north of here......so I guess I just call them northeners..:lol

I still get confused between a Kentish man and a man of Kent, and I have no idea what you call someone from my county, Middlesex, except sexy:D

http://www.digiserve.com/peter/manofkent.htm

Well I'm in Hampshire and um there isn't really a alternative to kentish or English or Glaswegian or whatever. Just Hampshire man or Hampshire woman. I'd guess Hertferdshire is the same being a shire too.

Afarscapefan

11-02-2005, 01:36 AM

"Mate"

though where I come from we call everyone mate.

OT When I was in Inner Mongolia, a Mongolian greeted me with, " I'm a Mongolia." :eek:

AnnaSun

11-02-2005, 02:57 AM

Hi,

Did you know the 'Chav' originated from 'Chatham'

Just thought you might like to know.

From
AnnaSun
Thanks

Nutty_Angel

11-02-2005, 04:53 AM

oh yeah the great chav wars and their gangs!!!! :fight: oh an its not Chatham its "cha'ham". hmm wonder why they we they can't pronouce the 'T's ??? :ehsign:

ok I'm from kent so does that make me woman of kent?? I just say I'm from kent thats all

scrape_medic

11-02-2005, 07:50 AM

a maiden of kent...depending on which side of the medway you are on...apparently

ScorpSik

11-02-2005, 08:52 AM

I live in Hertfordshire - I just call myself English.

Counties are so small, there is little point in having names.
St. Albans - Roman Verulamium - is in Herts, and my village has the country's oldest cricket pavillion.
St. Albans and all through Hertfordshire was where Boudicca exacted her revenge on the Romans.

Her people were the Iceni - so I guess we are those :) - but the Catuvellauni were more or less THE Hertfordshire tribe

It is referred to as one of the Home Counties

EDITED FOR LINK

http://www.roman-britain.org/tribes/catuvellauni.htm

freckle

11-02-2005, 10:07 AM

What do you call someone from Hertfordshire?

A Hert?

Hertish?

Hertfordshirian?

Hertfordese?

Hertfordish?

;) ummm English?????

TheBladeRoden

11-02-2005, 04:20 PM

I'm talking about in the sense that you call people Wisconsinites and Beloiters and Janesvillagers and Madisonians.

scrape_medic

11-03-2005, 12:26 AM

Seriously I think its hertfordshire man. There are some counties which have alternatives to calling them the full county name, Devon=devonian, Cornwall=Cornish etc. But the shire names tend to be based on the priciple town, in this case Hertford.
(Buckinghamshire-Buckingham, Yorkshire-York are other examples)

A hertfordian, could well be a man of the town of Hertford, so you would have to include the -shire suffix to differentiate between the town and the county.

Only exceptions to that I can think of for shire counties is Lancashire, were you could call them Lancastrians even though there is a town called Lancaster.

Some will come along and tell me that there are other exceptions I am sure. Like maybe a Leicestershire--rian :lol

BritAngie

11-03-2005, 01:03 AM

I'm talking about in the sense that you call people Wisconsinites and Beloiters and Janesvillagers and Madisonians.

Basically we don't because the county's aren't as big as your US States.

If someone says "where are you from?" we will most likely reply with our home town.

I'm from Hampshire - but specifically Portsmouth. I'd be called a Portsmouthian but I'm not sure that's so much as slang as anything else! lol We identify more with our home towns/citys rather than county.

Milaya

11-03-2005, 01:04 AM

From my point of wiev:AAARRGGGHHHH!!!!It seems so difficult for me...English town names are so difficult.

TheBladeRoden

11-03-2005, 01:55 AM

Oh well, I'll just have to make up something then.

scrape_medic

11-03-2005, 09:03 AM

Okay, I'll bite....make something up for?

Jim Reaper

11-03-2005, 11:37 AM

Basically we don't because the county's aren't as big as your US States.

If someone says "where are you from?" we will most likely reply with our home town.

I'm from Hampshire - but specifically Portsmouth. I'd be called a Portsmouthian but I'm not sure that's so much as slang as anything else! lol We identify more with our home towns/citys rather than county.
Absolutely. I'm from Worcestershire and I certainly have never heard anyone refer to themselves as a Worcestershirian.

fiona-maria

11-03-2005, 11:49 AM

Hey, BritAngie, my uncle and his wife live in Fareham....*smile*

AnnaSun

11-03-2005, 12:57 PM

Hi,

I'm from Kent 'The Garden of England'

Or I say in my area, Sittingbourne 'The compostheap of England!'

From
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fiona-maria

11-03-2005, 03:04 PM

My mum's family is from Somerset....

TheBladeRoden

11-03-2005, 03:31 PM

Oh, I've got it! Those from the Shire are Shirelings! How does Hertfordshirelings sound? :p

EDIT:It's for a story I'm making

BritAngie

11-04-2005, 01:20 AM

Oh, I've got it! Those from the Shire are Shirelings! How does Hertfordshirelings sound? :p

EDIT:It's for a story I'm making

Makes us sound like Hobbits!!!! :lol

Go for it! :D

BritAngie

11-04-2005, 01:21 AM

Hey, BritAngie, my uncle and his wife live in Fareham....*smile*

Oooh just a few miles away from me then! :) Nice area.