Wesleyan University Philippines - Demonym

Demonym

The demonym "Wesleyanian" is a unique word coinage which originated from WU-P. The term has been around for decades, though its use is regarded as traditional rather than official, and exclusive only to the university's academic and administrative community. Here the term "Wesleyan" is considered a general noun instead of an adjective, therefore requiring the use of the suffix -ian in order to convert it into its gentilic form. Though the subject of an ongoing linguistic and grammatical debate for being a bizarre form of a suffixed noun affixed with a second suffix, the term nonetheless gained wide if not universal currency among students and professors, that even a secondary publication was named "The Wesleyanian" and the term has been used repeatedly to refer to its community in a number of publications, speeches and even in official documents. WU-P is the only Wesleyan institution in the world which refers to its affiliates as "Wesleyanians."