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Is there a country where the name of the language/name of the people is the same as the name of the country. ie. the adjective is the same as the noun.
Is there a country where the name of the language/name of the people is the same as the name of the country. ie. the adjective is the same as the noun.
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Not exactly I should think, because people would need to differentiate when it is being used as a noun or an adjective
Hence England, English... Still somebody might know one, I don't? |
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Does "Central African Republic" count?
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But you would be a central african republican I guess, so don't reckon it counts.
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I thought Klingon might count, but I erroneously thought there was a planet called Klingon.
Just goes to show I'm not much of a Trekkie. |
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Planet's name is Kling, shirley?
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Got one.
Turkey! |
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No, they'd be Turkish. Try again.
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Worked with a girl one and asked her the question "if people who come from Poland are called poles what do you call people who live in Holland"? and in true Essex girl style she answered...holes
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*once
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People from Turkey are called Turkeys surely.
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I will chuck 'Jewish' into the mix.
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Inhabitants of the Argentine are sometimes called called Argentines, as well as the more common terms, such as Argentinians, Argies and Greasy Handball Cheats.
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Screamin
Let it go, let it go. |
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I'm sorry. In future I shall stick to the more dignified term, coined by Sir Alf Ramsey to describe the Argentine team at the 1966 World Cup.
"Animals". |
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People who live in Sweaty are Sweaties who speak Sweaty... hope that answers the question.
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Vulcans come from the planet Vulcan. Does that count?
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The answer to the original question is no
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The names doesn't sound marketable at all in English and way to close to Chechnya.
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our name changes soon to zone 4
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Liechtenstein and New Zealand.
Few non-independent countries like Hong Kong and Gibraltar too. |
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our name changes soon to zone 4
Is that the Islamic Republic of Zone 4? |
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Basque
The inhabitants consider it to be a country. |
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In Alabama there is a language called Alabama
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As someone said on twitter,Bohemia would have been the natural name.
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Why Do some countries prefix their name with "Democratic Republic " when it's obvious
that they are anything but ? |
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People on here sometimes call me JC. I used to not mind when the meant Jesus, I too once had a really heavy weekend and crawled out of a cave 3 days later talking sh*te when I though at one point I was dead, but when they started confusing me with Jeremy Corbyn...
I'm ok to be confused with the son of god and having caused millions of deaths through religious warfare, but I draw the line at that c***! |
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PS re the original post, they don't want to change their entire name, just their abbreviated nam, apparently.
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