Re: Country names

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> 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 in my father's rather idiocyncratic usage
Yankee means non-Texan, or rather 'Mercan non-Texan
th'rest is furners (some with their own tacky lables
some without).  Thus you have "them dad-blasted
Oklahoma Yankees" and "blakity-blank cotton-pickin'
dumb-as-dirt Luzianna Yankees" and "them Virginia
Yankees that's worse than regular Yankees".  IIRC
Canadians are Yankees too in my Father's usage since
they ain't furn enuff t'be furn.

Adam