WRANGLING WITH WYOMING
What should residents of Wyoming call themselves? New Jersey-born Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the last person you’d expect to have an opinion on the subject. But in a footnote in a water rights case decided on May 2, Scalia said “the people of Wyoming deserve better” than the usual tag “Wyomingite,” which is also a type of lava. So Scalia referred to them as “Wyomans.” At the University of Wyoming College of Law, Dean Stephen Easton called Scalia “a clever and influential man,” having once taken a course taught by him. But Easton’s not sure the new moniker will stick. “When the term ‘Wyoman’ is pronounced out loud,” he said, “it sounds too much like the pronunciation of our state’s name.” And then there’s the problem of the tongue-twisting female version: “Wyowoman.” Said Easton lightheartedly, “I wonder if folks will work that hard.” — Tony Mauro
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