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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <858@terak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 10:45:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 10:45:23 1985
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> > In article <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
> > >there is no word in the English language for inhabitant of the United States
> > >other than American.  I can understand how Latin Americans and Canadians
> > >might not like this, but it is a fact.  I'll be damned if I'm going to
> > That there's "no other word than American" in English (I dunno, just use
> > more than one word, maybe) for an inhabitant of the US means that
> 	Everywhere else in the world, they call us "yanks".

I doubt you'll find many (American) southerners who will accept
this name. The word "yankee" is usually used as part of the
contraction "damnyankee" and refers to northerners, strictly. It has
extremely negative connotations to the southern portion of the
population of the US.
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