{"id":13240,"date":"2022-02-09T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2022-02-06T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:04:00","slug":"a-demonym-we-all-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-demonym-we-all-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘demonym’ we all need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clayton County Press-Journal<\/em>, February 9, 1958:<\/p>\n

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“Strawbareans” is a great word and I am fully in favor of bringing this term for the Clayton County town of Strawberry Point back into common use. (“Denonym” is the name of the word used for people who are residents of a certain place.)<\/p>\n

If Google is to be believed, this is the first appearance of that word typed out online.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, notice how the newspaper could drop in the handy abbreviation “Pt.” in one-column spaces when necessary. SP’s teams were, of course, the Pointers. They became the Starmont Stars after consolidation, but not immediately. For two school years, 1962-63 and 1963-64, the consolidated Starmont district retained individual sports teams \u2014 and high schools! \u2014 at Arlington, Lamont, and Strawberry Point, until the present-day high school opened at the intersection of IA 3 and 187 about equidistant from the three towns. (Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette,<\/em> 7\/18\/62, 11\/21\/63, 8\/23\/64)<\/p>\n

And because I know you want to ask: That’s Goudy Heavy, not Cooper Black<\/a>. School history and<\/em> fontgeeking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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