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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 03:20:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 03:20:07 1985
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> 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?".
> 
> "Yankee" may have tarnished historical connotations, but then,
> they just may be deserved.
> 
> Rik Smoody		- they disclaim me around here, too.

Some of the people who come from the southern U.S. are likely to take
GREAT exception to this.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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