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and names of peoples from the names of their

countries is to do so Ly adding to the latter

either “n” and “ns” or “an” and “ans,” or In

a few cases, for sake of euphony, “ian” and

“jans.” The formation of American and Ameri

cans froin America sets the example. So we

have Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Haytians,

Jamaicans, Guatemalans, Niecaraguans, Costa

Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazillans,

and so down to Patagonians. The apparent

exceptions—Canadians, Salvadoreans and Peru

vians—are really nothing but slight euphonie

modifications of the same rule by analogy with

practically universal American usage; there

fore, we must say “Panaman” and “Pana

mans.”

No such argument can be adduced in support

of any other form. “Panamist” is an anomaly.

We are not sure that a single precedent for it

can be found in the world. “Panamanian” is

little, if any, better. Where is there a single

example of such formation? “Panamese” fol

lows the example of Chinese, Japanese, An

amese, Siamese, Javanese, Genoese, Viennese

and some others; but these are comparatively

few. and they are all non-American. Certainly

American examples should be followed in

American nomenclature. The approved forms

are American, and they are also identical with

those widely used in all parts of the world—

Italian and Russian in Europe, Egyptian and

Abyssinian in Africa, Persian and Arabian in

Asin, Australian and Hawallan in the islands

of the sea. “Panamans,’” then, our isthmian

neighbors are to be, “Panamans” they should

be. “Panamans” they shall be; and long may

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New-York tribune. (1903). New York [N.Y.], 1903-12-06. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1903-12-06/ed-1/?sp=10

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1903-12-06.