Hello from across the pond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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2gringos said:
Well, for my second post, it's pretty easy to see why people go looking for info elsewhere.

You bunch of hopeless bozos don't even know what a "yankee" is.
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According to EB White
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
Otherwise it's a a multiple bet consisting of eleven bets involving 4 selections in different events with 6 doubles, 4 trebles, and 1 fourfold.
 
2gringos said:
Well, for my second post, it's pretty easy to see why people go looking for info elsewhere.

You bunch of hopeless bozos don't even know what a "yankee" is. To call every US Citizen a Yank is absolutly NO different from us calling every Brit a Geordie. or every Scot and Mick an Englishman.

Don't take them too seriously, Major. They're all miffed because the only people left on earth who haven't kicked their asses are probably the Ethiopians. And that's just because they have better things to do.
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Yankee is supposed to be a derivation of Yangee the Huron indian name for white man or a British soldier.
 
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Sean said:
isnt the google channel great, makes peeps sound so informed
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Nothing to do with Google mate, i learned that a school many, many years ago. Maybe you need it i don't. For some strange reason Huron indians pronounced the French word for English Yangee. As told to me by Mr Dacy English teacher in about 1959. :p:p
 
wammers said:
Nothing to do with Google mate, i learned that a school many, many years ago. Maybe you need it i don't. For some strange reason Huron indians pronounced the French word for English Yangee. As told to me by Mr Dacy English teacher in about 1959. :p:p
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One of a number of possibilities......its kinda odd and intriguing how words can come into being, meanings change and origins lost
 
blue beasty said:
One of a number of possibilities......its kinda odd and intriguing how words can come into being, meanings change and origins lost
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Naah not possible i remember Mr Dacy was old enough to be there.:):):)

Actually he flew Wellington bombers in the war, a really interesting bloke if you could get him talking about it. Another teacher i had was Mr Jordan, he flew Typhoons, and was one of the pilots involved in the infamous sinking of three E boats in a fiord, just after the war officially ended. He told us the story as kids, when the documentary about it was on tele i realised that is what he had told us about. According to the RAF they never did find out who actually did it, now you know.
 
wammers said:
Naah not possible i remember Mr Dacy was old enough to be there.:):):)

Actually he flew Wellington bombers in the war, a really interesting bloke if you could get him talking about it. Another teacher i had was Mr Jordan, he flew Typhoons, and was one of the pilots involved in the infamous sinking of three E boats in a fiord, just after the war officially ended. He told us the story as kids, when the documentary about it was on tele i realised that is what he had told us about. According to the RAF they never did find out who actually did it, now you know.
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This is information I may not wish to know.......whats that banging on the do......:eek:








Fascinating though.......tis every teachers dream to pass on a seed of wisdom and understanding beyond knowledge
 
Sean said:
isnt the google channel great, makes peeps sound so informed
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I don't mind admitting using google for my reply - because it simply illustrated the fact that the term Yankee means different things to different people.

Personally, I don't use the term unless I want to upset a friend of the family who is from Georgia and still hasn't surrendered to the blue bellies:D. He hates me calling him a Yankee.

I do however use the term Yank, as it's much quicker to write than McDonald munching, do'nut swallowing, coke slurping, world domineering, myopic, condescending, arrogant foreigner. :D:D:D
 
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