Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> It's probably best to remind people that "Yank(ee)" is exonymous:
> the vast majority of Americans would not consider themselves
> Yankees (much less "Yanks", which sounds slightly obscene). The only
> unquestionably true Yankees, of course, are those who eat apple pie
> for breakfast, and that only in Vermont.
Doubtless one could introduce even finer distinctions pivoting on the
precise breed of apples.

Of course (as Cecil Adams points out), in tug-of-war there are yankers
and yankees.

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