Are you a Salt "Laker"?
For a story Jeff was writing, he asked people: what do you call a person from Salt Lake? And they get this glazed over look, shrug their shoulders and say "I dunno … Salt Laker? Maybe. Yeah."
I mean do you really say that? I haven’t heard it out of anyone’s mouth in 11 years.
A Parisian is from Paris
A Roman is from Rome
But what do you call a personwho calls Salt Lake his home?
Ogdenians and Heberites have names that both make sense
Or maybe their Hebernians-‘bout this I’m on the fence.
But surely all the Loganeers and most of the Duchayniards also
West Jordanians are known by rather sane words.
A spaniard is from Spain
They have Eskimos in Nome
But what do you call a person who calls Salt Lake his home?
Some would say Salt Laker.
But would that describve your Mom?
A Laker shoots a basketball
A Laker is LeBron
It doesn’t seem appropriate it doesn’t feel quite right
It makes about as much sense
Salt Lakeian or ite.
Some would say just call your friend a Utahn…but for fun… I’ll have to ask if Utahn's spelled with two “a"s. Or just one.
But insist you’re a Salt Laker I’ll know just what you meant. But pardon me if I call you "A Salt Lake Resident"
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