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From: td@alice.UUCP (Tom Duff)
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Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 00:59:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 00:59:18 1985
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> As a bo'n-an'-raised Suthanuh, Ah strongly resent yew callin' me
> uh Yankee!!

Of course, that's the point.  We used to just call them all Yanks
back in Toronto, knowning full well that South Yanks would bust an
artery at being called Yankees, and that North Yanks would recognize
that even if `Yankee' were a term of (backhanded) endearment, a
monosyllabic burst like `Yank' (rhymes with wank, crank, etc.)
couldn't possibly be.

Of course, there's nothing you can call a Canadian that will upset him.
He's heard it all before, having been abused by ignorant or
malicious Yanks all his life, and besides, he's too passively
polite to get upset.

(Now I'm going to start getting hate mail from some illiterate
bozo who thinks that I just called all 'Murricuns (that's what
I'm given to calling them these days) are ignorant and malicious,
when the only people I insulted categorically are the Canadians,
who I hope can take a joke.)