AEE 1664: A New Hampshirite and a Marylander on State Identity

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Subscribe to the transcripts at https://www.allearsenglish.com/subscribe What is a demonym? Its the word you use to talk abotu someone from a specific state or city. Today learn the most important state demonynms in English so that you can lively conversations about culture and politics with native speakers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1664, a new hamsterite and a Marylander on state identity.
0:09.9	Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast. Downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you
0:17.1	feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:24.1	on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:30.9	adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New
0:37.8	York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allyearsenglish.com,
0:47.7	forward slash subscribe. Every state in the US has a different culture. Today, get the words we
0:57.6	use to describe people from different states and cities so that you can start to have more lively
1:02.8	conversations about culture, geography, and politics in the United States with native speakers.
1:08.4	Hey Michelle, where'd you grow up by the way? Oh, I grew up in Maryland. Where did you grow up?
1:18.2	Well, I grew up in New Hampshire, so that makes me a new hamsterite. A new hamsterite.
1:24.4	Is that weird? I didn't know this. I don't think I actually knew that when I was living in
1:29.2	New Hampshire. I didn't know how to say someone from New Hampshire. Yeah, I was going to ask you,
1:34.7	is that something, or even today, would you say, if you met somebody, would you be like,
1:40.2	yeah, I'm a new hamsterite. Yeah, I kind of would. Actually, this exact week that we're recording
1:45.8	this, that this is coming out, there's another new hamsterite on the show. So when I,
1:50.4	so Wally Bressler, who I interviewed on Monday, he's actually from New Hampshire. It is the coolest
1:56.0	thing when you meet someone who went to school, like in your high school sports circuit, they know
2:00.9	your feet, your football field, they know your town. It's just a cool thing. It's a cool
2:06.0	thing. Yeah, it's really exciting when you, especially like when you're like us and we don't
2:10.0	neither of us live in the area where in we grew up. Exactly. And so when you do meet someone,
2:14.6	you're like, that's a huge deal. You almost just feel like they understand you on some level.
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