A resident/inhabitant of Prague

English translation: Praguer

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English term or phrase:A resident/inhabitant of Prague
Selected answer:Praguer
Entered by: Rafal Piotrowski

11:58 Oct 3, 2010
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Geography / City resident's names
English term or phrase: A resident/inhabitant of Prague
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
Rafal Piotrowski
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:05
Praguer
Explanation:
At least this is what I managed to find.
Selected response from:

Maja Basara
Croatia
Local time: 13:05
Grading comment
Thank you on behalf of PRAGUE PROZ CONFERENCE particpants :-)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +10Praguer
Maja Basara
4 +1the inhabitant of Prague
Constantinos Faridis (X)
4Prague citizens
Alexandra Taggart
4Praguista
Charlesp
3Praguese
Norbert Hermann
3Praguean
silifke63 (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
Dylan Edwards

Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +10
a resident/inhabitant of prague
Praguer


Explanation:
At least this is what I managed to find.

Example sentence(s):
  • Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, “My Praguers understand me.”

    Reference: http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/extra/years_ending_in_8_/praguers...
    Reference: http://www.eu2009.cz/en/czech-republic/music/history/history...
Maja Basara
Croatia
Local time: 13:05
Native speaker of: Croatian
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you on behalf of PRAGUE PROZ CONFERENCE particpants :-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rolf Keiser: as New Yorker, but Chicagoan
7 mins
  -> Thanks.

agree  Maria Chmelarova: pražan, pražané - Praguer(s)
21 mins
  -> Thank you.

agree  Dylan Edwards: Thanks for the Mozart quote!
26 mins
  -> You're welcome. :)

agree  Stephanie Ezrol
36 mins
  -> Thanks.

agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
1 hr
  -> Thank you.

agree  Jim Tucker (X)
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Jim.

agree  Deborah Workman: Praguer is on this list of demonyms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectivals_and_demonyms_for_ci...
12 hrs
  -> Thanks you for the link.

agree  orientalhorizon
1 day 3 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Colin Ryan (X): Very Prague-matic answer!
1 day 23 hrs
  -> LOL Nice pun. Thanks.

disagree  Charlesp: And in Budapest Budapesters?
2 days 4 hrs
  -> 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

agree  Phong Le
2 days 18 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Anna Herbst: http://claire-thepragueblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-want...
3 days 12 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a resident/inhabitant of prague
Praguese


Explanation:
http://www.prague.net/gallery/praguese-signs/

Norbert Hermann
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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
  -> I based it on Viennese :-)
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a resident/inhabitant of prague
Praguean


Explanation:
:)

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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

silifke63 (X)
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
a resident/inhabitant of prague
the inhabitant of Prague


Explanation:
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 -

Constantinos Faridis (X)
Greece
Local time: 14:05
Native speaker of: Greek

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  British Diana
7 hrs
  -> thanks
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
a resident/inhabitant of prague
Prague citizens


Explanation:
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Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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2 days 4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
a resident/inhabitant of prague
Praguista


Explanation:
Could be Praguista.

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 13:05
Native speaker of: English
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Reference comments


35 mins
Reference

Reference information:
"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, ...".

Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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