I know you know this and are just pushing buttons. but...
Yanks are Yankees
Yankees live in New England...
Or at least in the North.
The South didn't like Yankees. Or Scots. (Kidding. The entire South came over from Scotland.)
Many people who live in the South are now from the North. Ex-yankees trying to get a job in the Toyota factories.
Yankees is only used in the North. In the South, the word is damnyankees.
Yank is what I do to your chain. A yankee is someone who has just been yanked.
No one knows the origin of the word. Not even me. Some say yankee is the Cherokee word for coward, but any linguist knows the Cherokee word for coward is "fren-chee". Some say it is from the old Dutch, Jan and Kee. Well, that is just plain stupid. The old Dutch was Jan and Dean.
Max, "The entire South came over from Scotland?" Fantastic! I'm a rebel from no.... Hold on. The South is where 'Country Music' came from. Some say Scots invented that. But Scots are musical, so that does not fit with Country Music.'
Oh, it's nice to see her again! brings back rather boring afternoons as a kid when I would actually sit watching this :)
ReplyDeleteChampionships of what?
ReplyDeleteShips, Max.
ReplyDeleteShips competing to see who will become champion.
European ships.
European champion ships.
Happy birthday, auld yin. What did the Queen say in her message to you?
ReplyDeleteThey're over, long since.
ReplyDeleteJenny, Some of us remember the B&W one.....
ReplyDeleteMax, Yank!!!
Soub, Soon to be Yank!!!
Mike, None arrived. Queen canny afford one until Rangers tax bill is paid!
A. England's certainly were....:)
Don't call me yank, Limey, Texas is in the SOUTH!
ReplyDeleteSoub, My apologies. It ought to be Southern Yank?
ReplyDeleteI know you know this and are just pushing buttons. but...
ReplyDeleteYanks are Yankees
Yankees live in New England...
Or at least in the North.
The South didn't like Yankees. Or Scots. (Kidding. The entire South came over from Scotland.)
Many people who live in the South are now from the North. Ex-yankees trying to get a job in the Toyota factories.
Yankees is only used in the North. In the South, the word is damnyankees.
Yank is what I do to your chain. A yankee is someone who has just been yanked.
No one knows the origin of the word. Not even me. Some say yankee is the Cherokee word for coward, but any linguist knows the Cherokee word for coward is "fren-chee". Some say it is from the old Dutch, Jan and Kee. Well, that is just plain stupid. The old Dutch was Jan and Dean.
I gotta go eat now.
Max, "The entire South came over from Scotland?"
ReplyDeleteFantastic! I'm a rebel from no....
Hold on. The South is where 'Country Music' came from.
Some say Scots invented that. But Scots are musical, so that does not fit with Country Music.'
Hmmm, I must cogitate.....