South Georgian

British

adjective

of or relating to South Georgia or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

a native or inhabitant of South Georgia

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Example Sentences

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Then in March 2020, Covid-19 rushed across the world, and the South Georgian government - based in the Falkland Islands - asked the museum team to leave.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2022

Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some are authentically South Georgian and others from different parts of the Deep South, some upper-class and others not: can-dit: what Cot-tuh is.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patagonia and Argentina seem to have joined Antartica during the Cretaceous epoch, and this South Georgian bridge had broken down again by mid-Tertiary times when South America became consolidated.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

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