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