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From: addw@root44.UUCP (Alain Williams)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
Message-ID: <5377@root44.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 22:48:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 22:48:52 1985
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Tom Duff says:
> 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.

In my experience most Canadians get mad if you mistake them for a 'Yankee'
or even hint that you think they are one.

-- 
	Alain Williams,
	Root Computers Ltd, London, England.
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