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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: Re: One for our side
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 13:39:25 EST
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> > 
> > Yankee. I notice that people keep spelling it Yanqui, so I was wondering 
> > what the derivation really was.
> 
> The spelling 'Yanqui' is fairly recent (post 1960, say), and won't tell
> us anything about the origin of 'Yankee' in English.  The spelling is
> a way of making the pronunciation clear to Spanish-readers; or perhaps
> is some gringo's attempt to convey a spanish accent.  The original context,
> of course, was "Yanqui, !go home!"

Yanqui is how you spell Yankee in Spanish.  You also sometimes see it spelled
Yanki.