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Map of USA demonyms, did you know all of them? (vividmaps.com)
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Source: https://vividmaps.com/denomonyms-america/

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[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

I'd argue that Kentucky should be green. Sure the 'y' becomes an 'i', but it's still pronounced like Kentucky+-an so the difference is purely orthographic.

And changing a final 'y' to 'i' is extremely common when adding a suffix. (cf. happiness, beautiful, angrier)

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