Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
A resident/inhabitant of Prague
English answer:
Praguer
Added to glossary by
Rafal Piotrowski
Oct 3, 2010 11:58
13 yrs ago
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English term
A resident/inhabitant of Prague
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Other
Geography
City resident's names
Hello @ll,
At the conference in Prague that I am currently attending, an important question emerged:
WHAT do you actually call people who live in Prague?
Pragers? Pragese? Pragsters (I like this suggesion best ;-))?
6 native speakers interviewed had no clue - neither did Pavel, the organiser, who is a Prag-??? himself.
A reply will be especially appreciated if it arrives today, before 5 p.m. + 1 GMT.
A reference is most welcome.
TIA,
Rafal
At the conference in Prague that I am currently attending, an important question emerged:
WHAT do you actually call people who live in Prague?
Pragers? Pragese? Pragsters (I like this suggesion best ;-))?
6 native speakers interviewed had no clue - neither did Pavel, the organiser, who is a Prag-??? himself.
A reply will be especially appreciated if it arrives today, before 5 p.m. + 1 GMT.
A reference is most welcome.
TIA,
Rafal
Responses
3 +10 | Praguer | Maja Basara |
4 +1 | the inhabitant of Prague | Constantinos Faridis (X) |
4 | Prague citizens | Alexandra Taggart |
4 | Praguista | Charlesp |
3 | Praguese | Norbert Hermann |
3 | Praguean | silifke63 (X) |
Responses
+10
9 mins
Selected
Praguer
At least this is what I managed to find.
Example sentence:
Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, “My Praguers understand me.”
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Rolf Keiser
: as New Yorker, but Chicagoan
7 mins
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Thanks.
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agree |
Maria Chmelarova
: pražan, pražané - Praguer(s)
21 mins
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Thank you.
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agree |
Dylan Edwards
: Thanks for the Mozart quote!
26 mins
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You're welcome. :)
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agree |
Stephanie Ezrol
36 mins
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Thanks.
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agree |
Jenni Lukac (X)
1 hr
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Thank you.
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agree |
Jim Tucker (X)
3 hrs
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Thank you, Jim.
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agree |
Deborah Workman
: Praguer is on this list of demonyms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectivals_and_demonyms_for_ci...
12 hrs
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Thanks you for the link.
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agree |
orientalhorizon
1 day 3 hrs
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Thank you.
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agree |
Colin Ryan (X)
: Very Prague-matic answer!
1 day 23 hrs
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LOL Nice pun. Thanks.
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disagree |
Charlesp
: And in Budapest Budapesters?
2 days 4 hrs
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It actually came as a surprise to me as well but it appears so - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectivals_and_demonyms_for_ci... , http://www.paulsquiz.com/Trivia_Quiz_Resources/Geography/Lis... I'll have to look into it more
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agree |
Phong Le
2 days 18 hrs
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Thank you.
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agree |
Anna Herbst
: http://claire-thepragueblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-want...
3 days 12 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you on behalf of PRAGUE PROZ CONFERENCE particpants :-)"
10 mins
Praguese
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Jim Tucker (X)
: Would work if this were a language or a nationality. // Fair enough, maybe it's the "n" or the French precedent that makes "Viennese" work.
3 hrs
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I based it on Viennese :-)
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7 mins
Praguean
:)
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Note added at 11 mins (2010-10-03 12:10:17 GMT)
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joking, but i suggest the option " residents" IN Preague
hth
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Note added at 11 mins (2010-10-03 12:10:17 GMT)
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joking, but i suggest the option " residents" IN Preague
hth
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16 mins
the inhabitant of Prague
1881: The National Theatre is destroyed in a fire, the inhabitants of Prague collect money for its re-construction. 1883: Re-opening of the National Theatre ...
www.prague.net/history -
www.prague.net/history -
4 hrs
Prague citizens
.
2 days 4 hrs
Praguista
Could be Praguista.
Reference comments
35 mins
Reference:
"If you could please answer this question, it would surely settle a huge debate:
In English, people from Paris are Parisians. People from Rome are Romans. What do you call people from Prague?"
Although neither dictionaries nor the spell check on my computer recognise it, one can come across the word "Praguers", especially among the expat community in Prague. In Czech the word is Prazan - or Prazak in colloquial speech - so it would make sense to have a short, one-word term in English, too. On Radio Prague we usually refer to them as Prague citizens. But we'd like to know what you, the listeners, think about the terms - which one do you prefer? Please, let us know...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/67571
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Note added at 57 mins (2010-10-03 12:55:30 GMT)
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Of course, it doesn't sound as familiar to most English-speakers as "Berliner" or "Parisian", but "Praguer" is the word that you typically see, for example, in guide books to Prague:
"So all those fancy restaurants and stylish bars are out of reach of the majority of Praguers, their custom confined to expats, gangsters, ...".
In English, people from Paris are Parisians. People from Rome are Romans. What do you call people from Prague?"
Although neither dictionaries nor the spell check on my computer recognise it, one can come across the word "Praguers", especially among the expat community in Prague. In Czech the word is Prazan - or Prazak in colloquial speech - so it would make sense to have a short, one-word term in English, too. On Radio Prague we usually refer to them as Prague citizens. But we'd like to know what you, the listeners, think about the terms - which one do you prefer? Please, let us know...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/67571
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Note added at 57 mins (2010-10-03 12:55:30 GMT)
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Of course, it doesn't sound as familiar to most English-speakers as "Berliner" or "Parisian", but "Praguer" is the word that you typically see, for example, in guide books to Prague:
"So all those fancy restaurants and stylish bars are out of reach of the majority of Praguers, their custom confined to expats, gangsters, ...".
Discussion
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