Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 21, 1999, 2:18 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> "Yankee" probably belongs to this category (Dutch "Jan Kees", John
> Cheese).
Just curious: are there any remnants of "Dutchness" in New York City
at all? I read that even in the early 1800s there were enough people speaking
it that the city records were still kept in both English and Dutch. And,
I think President Martin Van Buren's native language was (New Yorker)
Dutch. Anything left of that?
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