American English Take-Home Exam
are located on the Strip. A popular phrase on/off the strip or simply off-strip is used to describe
destinations that are located beyond the strip (does not necessarily mean that they are sketchy or
less attractive).
6) A resident of New York is called a ‘New Yorker’. How are residents of the following
places called? Continue the list with five more names.
Las Vegas – ‘Las Vegan’ or simply ‘Vegan’ (pronounced as vay-gan, not vee-gan)
Michigan – ‘Michigander’, ‘Michiganian’, ‘Michiganer‘, ‘Michiganite’, ‘Michigine’, ‘Yooper’
Chicago – ‘Chicagoan’
Indiana – ‘Indianian’, ‘Indianan’, ‘Hoosier’
San Francisco – ‘San Franciscan’
Oklahoma – ‘Oklahoman’, ‘Okie’, ‘Sooner’
Pittsburgh – ‘Pittsburgher’
Virginia – ‘Virginian’
Oregon – ‘Oregonian’
Iowa – ‘Iowan’, ‘Hawkeye’
Tennessee – ‘Tennessean’, ‘Volunteer’, ‘Big Bender’, ‘Buttenut’