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Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER? Thanks
  

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[nq:1]Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER? Thanks[/nq] Mancunian Les

  • [nq:1]Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER?
  • Thanks[/nq] Mancunian Les
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[nq:1]Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER? Thanks[/nq]
Mancunian

Les
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[nq:2]Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER? Thanks[/nq]
[nq:1]Mancunian[/nq]
And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]Mancunian[/nq]
[nq:1]And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)[/nq]
With plural "mancs"? Couldn't that confuse the inhabitants of a certain island?
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[nq:2]And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)[/nq]
[nq:1]With plural "mancs"? Couldn't that confuse the inhabitants of a certain island?[/nq]
Or cats that can't spell.

Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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[nq:2]With plural "mancs"? Couldn't that confuse the inhabitants of a certain island?[/nq]
[nq:1]Or cats that can't spell.[/nq]
Like a linc, the singular Felis canadensis ?

Odysseus
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[nq:2]And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)[/nq]
[nq:1]With plural "mancs"?[/nq]
Mancs are natives of Manchester.
[nq:1]Couldn't that confuse the inhabitants of a certain island?[/nq]
Why?
DC
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[nq:2]Mancunian[/nq]
[nq:1]And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)[/nq]
There's also 'Manky' - vaguely **** - "Bad, inferior, defective; dirty, disgusting, unpleasant" (OED) which I've always thought was derived from cheap goods manufactured in Manc, though OED doesn't agree with that etymology...
DC Manc resident, but Sotonian, not Mancunian.
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[nq:2]With plural "mancs"? Couldn't that confuse the inhabitants of a certain island?[/nq]
[nq:1]Or cats that can't spell.[/nq]
And thereby hangs a tale ...

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]And, more recently, in a slang usage - 'manc' (which also does service as a noun)[/nq]
[nq:1]There's also 'Manky' - vaguely **** - "Bad, inferior, defective; dirty, disgusting, unpleasant" (OED) which I've always thought was derived from cheap goods manufactured in Manc, though OED doesn't agree with that etymology...[/nq]
That'll be because we didn't manufacture cheap goods. You wan

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