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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Yankee Doodle
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 19:56:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 19:56:25 1985
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> Random House gives the following etymology for Yankee.
> 
>      A possible back formation from Dutch.  Jan Kees (John Cheese)
> was a nickname (mistaken for a plural) applied by the colonial NY Dutch
> to English settlers in connecticut.

Well, the modern Dutch for "cheese" is "kaas."  I don't know any
Old Dutch, except the cleanser.  Are there any etymologists at mcvax?
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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