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The Government Calls People From MA This — And It's Simply Crazy
Wait, what? We would have preferred Masshole to this.
If you already knew this, take a bow. The rest of you, join the club.
A government style guide dug up by a member of the Public Religion Research Institute has what the government's official name for residents of each state is. You know, like Alaskan, New Yorker, Texan ... Massachusettsan.
After about a dozen arguments about what to call residents of certain states, I finally googled and found the U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual. Have fun with this, twitter. pic.twitter.com/H8bugwOH2j
— Natalie Jackson (@nataliemj10) July 31, 2019
Frankly, we would have taken Masshole over Massachusettsan, which almost hurts your mouth to enunciate. But this YouTube video can help you out.
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Apparently, Wikipedia was already aware of this. So was Odyssey, which wrote 35 ways to identify a Massachusettsan in 2017.
And for the record, Massachusettsan still triggers our spellcheck.
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