Re: Country names

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> How bout those pie-for-breakfast-eating Vermonters who use a knife? Do
> they call themselves yanks, or do they have a further level
> specificness? or even call people who use forks and not knives for
> eating pies for breakfast 'yanks', so that no group calls themselves
> yanks?
Well, of course the last few definitions are intentionally silly, but
your final point is quite correct: there is normally always someone else
to point to as being the "real" Yankees.

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