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Why do UK journalists insist on treating California differently? What I mean is that Google, e.g., is typically referred to by the BBC and Guardian as a “Californian company”. New York Life is not a “New Yorker company”, and Wrigley isn’t an “Illinoisan company”. Thank God that Eli Lilly isn’t a “Hoosier company”. (I doubt even the Brits would attempt to use “Indianian”.) So why does California get its own adjective?

… for the delay. Work and life and death intervening and all that.