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From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: One for our side
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 04:54:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 04:54:46 1985
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I have heard that the word Yankee comes from a time when there was a great
influx of Dutch (?) settlers to the US, and that the typical Dutch (?) name
of the period was "Jan Guy" or something similar, which was corrupted to
Yankee. I notice that people keep spelling it Yanqui, so I was wondering 
what the derivation really was.

I have also heard gringo is derived from "Green grow the Rushes..."
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