Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> "John Cheese" would be "Jan Kaas". Kees, like Jan, is a very common
> Dutch name, and the combination Jan-Kees is not unusual either.
Sorry, I was mixing up the probably-true etymology with one of the
10,000 bogus ones.

"Yankee" and "OK" stir up tremendous enthusiasm
among etymology cranks.  The latter is an acronym derived from a
deliberate misspelling of "all correct" as "oll korrect", one example
of a fashion popular in the U.S. during the 1840s.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)