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Re: Country names

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, May 12, 2003, 20:18
On Mon, 12 May 2003 06:47:49 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> Joe Fatula scripsit: > > > The other option is just to call us Australians, and we won't > > > call the lot > > > of yas 'yanks'.
> > Which would elicit humorous reactions from all those Southerners > > and Americans from out west being mistaken for 'yanks'.
> Yankee, n. 1. Outside the U.S., any American. 2. In the Southern > U.S., any Northerner. 3. In the Northern U.S., any New Englander. > 4. In New England, any Vermonter. 5. In Vermont, any Vermonter who > eats pie for breakfast. 6. Among Vermonters who eat pie for > breakfast, one who eats it with a knife. > That should settle the issue.
- Except that i've never actually heard of definitions 3 through 6 being used. Also, a friend of mine from north-central Florida was very surprised when no one was offended when she called us "Yankees". She thought it was a huge insult. -Stephen (Steg) "how do you see inside my eyes like open doors?" ~ evanescence

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