Re: Country names

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.

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