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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: One for our side
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 02:24:40 EST
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> From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson)
> Message-ID: <942@rlvd.UUCP>
> Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 03:54:46 CST
> Keywords: yanqui
> 
> 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!"
     I've been following the gringo debate, and have been rather skeptical
about the "Green(s), go!" story: why would they shout in English.  But
if "Yanqui, go home" was in English, why not this too?  (I still like
the "Green grow the rushes-o" story better.)
    Does anybody know the facts?:
     1.  Was "Yanqui, go home" ever in fact a popular cry of Latin
         American crowds, at U.S. official visitors?
     2.  If so, was it in English as quoted, or in Spanish?

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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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