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General
Britons are referred to by several other names throughout the world, some of them may be pejorative, insulting, or verging on ethnic or racial slurs. The following list is provided for completeness only, and intends no disrespect to anyone (the same goes for the names listed under Regions and Cities below):
Other Names - Brit, Inselaffe (German for Island Monkey), Limey, Pom, Pommie, Pommy, Roast Beef, Rosbif
Countries, Regions, and Cities
- Great Britain - also Briton (singular), Britons/British (plural)
- England - Englishman, Englishwoman, English
- Birmingham - Brummie
- Bristol - Bristolian
- Cambridge - Cantabrian, Cantab, Tab, Cantabrigian
- Cornwall - Cornish, Kernewek, Janner
- Lancaster - Lancastrian
- Leeds - Loiner
- Liverpool - Liverpudlian, Scouser, Scouse
- London - Londoner, Cockney
- Manchester - Mancunian
- Newcastle - Novocastrian, Geordie
- Nottingham - Nottinghamian
- Slough - Paludian
- Sunderland - Maccam
- Yorkshire - Yorkshireman, Yorkshirewoman, Tyke, Yorkie
- Northern Ireland - Ulsterman, Northern Irishman, Northern Irishwoman, Northern Irish, Irishman, Irishwoman, Irish
- Scotland - Scot, Scottish (colloquial), Jock
- Wales - Welshman, Welshwoman, Welsh, Taff
UK Territories
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I do not pretend that this is a complete list as far as the city demonyms go. If you would like to have more cities added, please /msg me.
Thanks to Albert Herring, ascorbic, CamTarn, Catchpole, CatherineB, Cyan de Funk, gbulmer, HamsterMan, Just_Tom, lemur, oops, sam512, spiregrain, stupot, Teiresias, TenMinJoe, tregoweth, and Txikwa for their suggestions and input.