The USS Liberty incident

[CrabGirl]

I love this thread!

[j2k4]

"Yank" and "Yankee" are and have been used by foriegners to refer to Americans.

Not really old bean. I don't know anyone who refers to Americans as Yankees.

How do you refer to the type of American who argues thus?^

[Mike Nelson]

Word History: The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning “little Jan” or “little John,” a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none

[JPaul]

Yeah, go spoil it with your book larnin' Mr so called Nelson.

Any relation btw.

[Ava Estelle]

Oops! Double post.

[Ava Estelle]

"Yank" and "Yankee" are and have been used by foriegners to refer to Americans.

How do you refer to the type of American who argues thus?^

Substitute the 'Y' for another letter?

[GepperRankins]

my parents call americans yankees

[ram82082]

thought this shit'd be dead long time ago, mite get drunk n come stir up sum shit

[Barbarossa]

my parents call americans yankees

Your parents call everyone yankees

[Seedler]

Last time I checked, the UK (or 'Stralia for that matter) is not the rest of the planet either.

It is kind of the other English speaking part tho'.

Unless you count Canadia.

Do they call you Yankees.

Yes.