Your news item on burning old weapons in Alabama refers to residents
as "Alabamans". Just as you call someone from Florida a Floridian, or someone from Carolina a Carolinian, or someone from Canada a Canadian, you call someone from Alabama an Alabamian.
If those examples don't resonate with your reporters and copy editors, then this mnemonic might help: a follower of Christ is called a Christian, not a Christan.
/rich
Army rids itself of leftover weapons of mass destruction, distributing plastic sheeting to Alabamans nearby.
http://csmonitor.com/2003/0808/p03s01-uspo.html
