A demonym is a term, such as Vietnamese, that refers to a person or thing from a specific place. Can you name the most common demonyms used in American writing from 1990-2015?
Source: Corpus of Contemporary American English
Hint: Try to think of places that would have been in the news during those years
Not necessarily countries. Not all places currently exist
It would be very strange for a language corpus to start grouping together terms like that. It's not as if Persian is just Iranian differently conjugated. They are different terms that refer to different things.
Soviet, too, not exactly making headlines these days. Must have been a lot of history books that they incorporated. Though they would have been in headlines a ton right around 1990-1991 when the dates begin... not so much after that.
I find myself suspicious of these answers - I was sure Texan and Californian would be there. I expected Westerner too, though that might be too broad a term to really be called a demonym
I not think of China!? Triple face palm.