[at-l] Re: Yanks WAS Yankees (O.T.)

[lbooher at pure.net (Leslie Booher)]

Coosa wrote: "Which means that in the eyes of the British, there was a time when we were all "Yanks"  -- even those of us born South of that Dixon-Mason line."

Of course, the Europeans call us all Yanks.  And there's that war song, WWI, maybe? that goes....

Over there, Over there,
Tell the boys in the trenches over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming over there.....

anklebear

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