Posted on 06/19/2014 12:03:05 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Slang used primarily by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer to people of the Union states. Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, "Yang-gees," which morphed into "Yankees" by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763.
Well I grew up in a small (don’t blink) town in Michigan called Napoleon, named after the French dictator and military dude. Shouldn’t the decendents of all his conquered people be ticked off about that? MY HOME TOWN IS EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arkansas Razor Backs - pigs - offensive to mussies .....
Don't forget the UNLV Runnin' Rebels...it's like they even KNOW they've done something wrong!
In Asheville, North Carolina, they’re having a large influx of what they’re calling Half-Backs. That’s people who moved from the Northeast to Florida, didn’t like it, and moved halfway back.
Reminds me of a funny cartoon I once saw. A guide in Mexico was giving a tour to some Americans, when suddenly they came across some fresh graffiti that said “Yankee go home”. The guide apologized, profusely. The leader of the American group replied “Oh that’s OK, we all are from The South”.
I think they already did that. They are The Black Bears or something like that.
Cha-ding !!! LOL (that was funny too)
Time to ban Cowboys, too.
“Kaas” is Dutch for cheese. Kees (or sometimes Cees) sounds like “case” and is just a masculine name which is often hyphenated with Jan (John). The origin of “yankee” is somewhat uncertain, so maybe it was Jan Kaas, John the cheese eater.
I once encountered a professional singer (operatic type) who had the last name “Kaasschieter” which means “cheese shooter” . . . Oh boy, I don’t want to go any further there . . .
Isn’t Ashville like a ‘blue’ town in a sea of red ???
It’s more like calling them birds — the kiwi being their national bird. The fruit is properly called “kiwifruit”.
i was groan before i found out damn&yankee was two different words.
They are in there.
It is now. It didn’t used to be.
snort ... chuckle ... :)
“Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, “Yang-gees,” which morphed into “Yankees” by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763.”
And here I thought it had to do with the Dutch slur Jan(yon) Kees(keez) which means “John Cheese” that was ‘”used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times” and could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists as well.[9]’
‘H. L. Mencken derived it from the slur “John Cheese”, applied by the English colonists to the Dutch – “Here comes a John Cheese”[11] – owing to the importance of their dairy cultivation, which introduced the black-and-white dairy cow from Friesland and North Holland to America in the mid-1600s. The modern Dutch for John Cheese is Jan Kaas but this would be spoken Jan Kees in some dialects.[10]’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
A bunch of Cheese Heads they were and their descendants became Packers fans I bet!
I’m offended by the song; ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ . It must be obliterated now!
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” should be banned, but just in Connecticut.
I don’t use Yankee much and prefer “carpetbagger”.
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