What do you call citizens of Whiterun?

Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:05 pm

I'm currently working on a mod, and I need to know how one would refer to a citizen of Whiterun. I've been searching, but to no avail. Whiterunian sounds the most logical, but I prefer not to take any risks.

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Eve(G)
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:12 pm

Whiteys.

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Connor Wing
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:04 pm

Whiterunners.

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lydia nekongo
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:46 pm

People of the plains?
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Bambi
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:13 pm

I mean as in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, ...

I've misphrased my question.

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trisha punch
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:59 am

Corredor blanco?

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Lisa Robb
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:17 pm

People.
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Daniel Holgate
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:21 am

"The people of Whiterun Hold". That's the only way, really. The holds aren't separate countries. It would be like calling someone "Alabamaian" or something equally ridiculous.

Other than that you should refer to them by name or race, as is the norm.
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Courtney Foren
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:42 pm

Well, people from Texas are referred to as Texans. :P

Only playing, I see your point of course.

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CArlos BArrera
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:31 pm

Well, they are predominately Nords, so I guess Norse.

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Jhenna lee Lizama
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:53 am

Nords. Even the Redguards.

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WYatt REed
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:05 am

Actually, I've seem people from Alabama get referred to as Alabamian numerous times.

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Samantha Wood
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:23 pm

You had to, didn't you? :P

Thevet, really? That's very odd. What about someone from Utah? Or, on my side of the Atlantic, Shropshire?
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Rozlyn Robinson
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:53 pm

According to Google, "Utahn" or "Utahan". And I would guess "Shropshirean", or something along those lines.

That's too broad, though, considering pretty much all of Skyrim consists mostly of Nords. I guess I'll have to come up with an alternative.

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Scott
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:25 am

A Shropshire Lad surely!

The real answer is Salopian I believe.

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Holli Dillon
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:35 pm

Well, you're asked about who lives in Germany, I'd say Germans do. Who lives in Skyrim? Nords.

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Nitol Ahmed
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:50 am

Whiterunites?

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glot
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:44 pm

Except your nationality has very little to do with your race.

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roxxii lenaghan
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:22 pm

In Bengali: Shada okhol - The white lot.

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Jade MacSpade
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:19 pm

Well, what do you want to call them then? Whiteys?

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katie TWAVA
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:12 am

Well, that's my question to you all. What would YOU call them? Whiterunian? Whiterunic?

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Kara Payne
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:10 pm

Why dirty stinking Nords of course. What else would you call them?

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Scott
 
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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:55 pm

In my point of view Whiterun means "White Passage". It makes sense because the hold is basically a plains that makes remote places accessible. It's extremely easy to get to Solitude, Dawnstart, Windhelm, the Reach and, of couse to Bruma from the Whiterun Hold. White because it's Skyrim and it's snowy -.-

So, something like Whiterunians or Whiterunner or People from Whiterun. But I prefer to call them Albi Itenera which means, in Latin, "The people from the White Path"

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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:44 pm

People of Whiterun Hold, I would think.

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Post » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:31 pm

Citizen of Whiterun sounds good to me. Do you even give names to citizens of just a city? I know some do like New Yorkers, but I've never heard of Chicagoers, Charlestoners, etc. Or Romanites (Which I think is a flower) and so on.

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