Tazz070299
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According to EB White
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
Otherwise it's a a multiple bet consisting of eleven bets involving 4 selections in different events with 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and 1 fourfold.
Tazz070299
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Nope. Try British West Indies
please excuse the plank he's thick
Yankee is supposed to be a derivation of Yangee the Huron indian name for white man or a British soldier.
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blue beasty
Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
Linguists give more weight to the dutch possibility........Last of the Mohecans is a good film though
Fur Trapper
Banned
Yank is ok.
But here in Yankee land when someone calls them selves 2gringos the acrynom is means 2boys that are butt buddies
Nothing to do with Google mate, i learned that a school many, many years ago. Maybe you need it i don't. For some strange reason Huron indians pronounced the French word for English Yangee. As told to me by Mr Dacy English teacher in about 1959.
West Slope Rover
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No John, it means 2 foreigners.Yank is ok.
But here in Yankee land when someone calls them selves 2gringos the acrynom is means 2boys that are butt buddies
You seem very obsessed with gay folk.
Fur Trapper
Banned
Where the feek did you get your education pall
Linguists give more weight to the dutch possibility........Last of the Mohecans is a good film though
Is that a fact would not know about that.
blue beasty
Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
Nothing to do with Google mate, i learned that a school many, many years ago. Maybe you need it i don't. For some strange reason Huron indians pronounced the French word for English Yangee. As told to me by Mr Dacy English teacher in about 1959.
One of a number of possibilities......its kinda odd and intriguing how words can come into being, meanings change and origins lost
Fur Trapper
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It is amazing how alot of everyday words are actually a foreign language/word of origin and used so freely, in every day speaking
ere is this the bird that's been letting the crims in for 10 years and who you said was sacked a couple of days ago ?
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Naah not possible i remember Mr Dacy was old enough to be there.
Actually he flew Wellington bombers in the war, a really interesting bloke if you could get him talking about it. Another teacher i had was Mr Jordan, he flew Typhoons, and was one of the pilots involved in the infamous sinking of three E boats in a fiord, just after the war officially ended. He told us the story as kids, when the documentary about it was on tele i realised that is what he had told us about. According to the RAF they never did find out who actually did it, now you know.
blue beasty
Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
Naah not possible i remember Mr Dacy was old enough to be there.
Actually he flew Wellington bombers in the war, a really interesting bloke if you could get him talking about it. Another teacher i had was Mr Jordan, he flew Typhoons, and was one of the pilots involved in the infamous sinking of three E boats in a fiord, just after the war officially ended. He told us the story as kids, when the documentary about it was on tele i realised that is what he had told us about. According to the RAF they never did find out who actually did it, now you know.
This is information I may not wish to know.......whats that banging on the do......
Fascinating though.......tis every teachers dream to pass on a seed of wisdom and understanding beyond knowledge
Fur Trapper
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Tazz070299
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I don't mind admitting using google for my reply - because it simply illustrated the fact that the term Yankee means different things to different people.
Personally, I don't use the term unless I want to upset a friend of the family who is from Georgia and still hasn't surrendered to the blue bellies
. He hates me calling him a Yankee.I do however use the term Yank, as it's much quicker to write than McDonald munching, do'nut swallowing, coke slurping, world domineering, myopic, condescending, arrogant foreigner.
