Is it Utahn or Utahan

Answer 1

It's Utahn. No second 'a'. And we're quite sensitive about it too.

NO it is Utahan and yes we are very sensitive to it.

--As you can see, people spell it both ways and are very partial to the way they spell it. I personally spell it "Utahn," but I'm not sensitive about it. However, here is what a 1993 Deseret News article says about it:

"According to legal counsel Robin Riggs, there is no law defining what a person from Utah is called; it's just a matter of tradition. And, the tradition is Utahn, Riggs said.

We went to another expert - Susan Hermance, assistant copy chief at the Deseret News. It's Utahns, she said. Why? "That's just the way we've always done it. It's easier to pronounce. Utahans is a mouthful.

"I've never seen it the other way except in obscure things that don't come out of Utah," Hermance said.

Yeah, like Esquire.

Still not satisfied, we called an editor at the American Heritage Dictionary, which calls residents Utahans.

"It probably came from our citation file," said Paul Evenson, who wrote a lot of the geographic entries. "We get citations from all kinds of cited material. Whatever we end up finding more of we end up putting in.""

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/305103/THOUGHTS-ON-UTAHN-AND-A-PYTHON.html