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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.nlang
Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
Message-ID: <158@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 10:58:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.158
Posted: Fri May 24 10:58:50 1985
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Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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Summary: 

In article <700@teklds.UUCP> riks@teklds.UUCP (Rik Smoody) writes:
>I'm inclined to use the word "Yankee" to refer to things of the US.
>Any cashier in BC (western province of Canada, for you eastern
>Yanks) understands "What's that come to in Yankee dollars?".
>
I'm currently living in the southern U.S., and use of the term "yankee"
is usually preficed by the term "goddamn" as in, "Let's go whup us
some of them goddamn yankees been puttin brown sugar on their grits."

I'd suggest you be careful about refering to people as a "yankee"
when you are traveling.

A "yanker" myself,
-- 
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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