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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 11:46:09 EST
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From Martin Taylor:

> This response illustrates EXACTLY the kind of Yank thinking that Jeff
> originally sounded off about.  Of course the Yanks won the war.  There
> weren't any Brits or Canucks or Aussies or Ghurkas or whatever -- just
> "Americans".  Wonderful!  And to whoever said there isn't an English
> word to describe US citizens, note that the English is "Yank", a word
> which may not occur in the US version of the language, but has 1/4 as
> many syllables as the moderately offensive "American."  (Yes, I know,
> "Yank" can be confused with "Yankee" which refers to only a few of you,
> but then English has lots of even more confusable word-pairs, so that
> shouldn't matter.)
> -- 
 
Jeff should look at his history books more often.  Then he would'nt have
that kind of yank thinking.
Everyone knows it was an Allied effort.  But in many instances, there were
armies of a particular nationality liberating a town here and there in France
and elsewhere.  Under General Patton for instance, hundreds of towns and
cities were liberated by American (U.S) forces, just as hundreds of areas
were liberated by other nationalist forces.  
What I had stated in an earlier article was when one of these armies made
up of entirely U.S. citizens made it's way towards an occupied area, it was
well known that the statement "The Americans are coming" was well used.
It just would not have sounded proper to say "The U.S. citizens are coming."
That sounds like some lawyers and bakers and a few used car salesmen along
with a plane full of tourists. 

Just because the English use Yank to describe us doesn't warrant the use
of the word Yank by AMERICANS.

regards, from an American 

ray