Re: Country names

John 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.
>
>
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?

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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