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DFO: What Do You Call Some from Worley?

When I was news editor of the Lewiston Tribune (1982-84), we usually ended the swing shift (3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.) discussing the various issues of he day, while sipping a Miller’s offered to us for 50 cents by copy editor Mel Snow, who’d bring back a six-pack from a Clarkston bar. Occasionally, the talk turned to the proper reference to the residents of the various towns around Lewiston. A Lewiston resident, for example, was a Lewistonian. But a Clarkston resident was a Clarkstonite. I can’t remember the names we had for residents of Grangeville (which we called “Strangeville”), Orofino or Moscow. But I recall that we knew it was time to call home when someone brought up Peck, Idaho. So, here’s the question. What do you call residents of the varous towns around here? What do you call someone from Post Falls, for example? A Post Fallsian? I sometimes refer to local townsfolk as Coeur d’Loonians. But that’s when I’m being mischievous. I’d guess Rathdrum residents are Rathdrumites. And then there’s the Sandpointers up north. Any help on other names?

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