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Re: Exonyms [Re: English syllable structure]

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Sunday, December 9, 2001, 22:45
Quoting Padraic Brown <agricola@...>:

> Am 09.12.01, Thomas R. Wier yscrifef: > > > "yankee" in most of America refers to people > > who live north and east of yourself. So, to Alabamians, > > Marylanders are Yankees; to Marylanders, people from Pennsylvania > > are Yankees; to people from Pennsylvania, New Yorkers are Yankees. > > I suspect that leaves the Mainemen holding the bag.
More or less. Somehow, it got associated with New England, even though the traditional etymology is that it came from Dutch _Jan Kees_ "John Cheese" as a term of abuse used by the inhabitants of New Amsterdam for the English invaders. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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