Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Frank George Valoczy scripsit:

> Hm...perhaps this may not be the most tactful thing, but a great deal of
> the world already has a word for USAmericans, namely "Yankee"...
It's not that it's tactless, it's just that it's used differently
in the country itself:

In the rest of the world, a Yankee is anyone from the United States.
In the South, it's anyone from the North.
In the North, it's anyone from New England.
In New England, it's anyone from Vermont.
And in Vermont, it's anyone who eats pie for breakfast.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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