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Margo Kingston in 2002:
I’ve had enough complaints about my use of ‘Yank’ to realise the term is putting some readers off. So I’ve dropped it.
Margo Kingston today:
Indeed the Yanks vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution condemnning the attack on the Kurds, as I recall.
Or as we usedta say on dadocks… “I got sumpin’ you can can yank, right heah…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 16 at 11:39 AM • permalinkPeople from Boston don’t like the word “Yanks”. Or “New York” for that matter.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 16 at 11:39 AM • permalinkYanks! Don’t see anything wrong with ‘Yank’, and I are one. ‘Course it’s the context and HOW you say it. The Brits and the Canucks use it freely. Just used US terms for them (most Yanks don’t know what a ‘Pommie’ is). I can remember a time when anyone ‘down under’ was an ANZAC or maybe an Aussie. Think all of these are meant affectionately in plain usage.
As a resident of Virginia, I can attest to the fact that you never know what those yankees will be up to next. One day they’re runnin’ some gigolo with a magic hat for President, the next day they’re handin’ over the DNC to some bounder whose facial expression resembles that of a beagle gazin’ into the middle distance, contemplatin’ yesterday’s ham bone. Yeah, they’re a right tricky lot alright.
Who is offended by Yank? That’s a new one on me. Hell, I don’t even mind “seppo.”
I’m going to guess it’s Margo’s lefty Yank readers who bitched. And only because it’s a synonym for “American”, and they’re ashamed. Or they just want to be offended by something and complain. I’m betting on the latter.
“Over there, over there, send the word, send the word, over there, that the Yanks are coming ...”
For me Yanks is a good word. It embodies courage, steadfastness, the willingness to do what is right regardless of the costs, the ability to take responsibility when no one else will.
In other words, the polar opposite of French.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 16 at 03:08 PM • permalinkI don’t mind the Margoid calling me a “Yank” as long as she doesn’t mind me calling her by an appropriate name, like “Ignorant B*tch With Sh*t-for-Brains.” Works for me.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 03 16 at 06:36 PM • permalinkActually, as I think about it, that could be an appropriate term for just about all the posters at webdiary.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 03 16 at 06:37 PM • permalinkThe CHINESE and RUSSIANS vetoed a resolution calling the murder of up to a 180,000 Africans by ARAB militias in the Darfur region of Sudan in the last 18 months, ‘GENOCIDE’. Probably because these countries (Russia & China) supply the guns responsible, and depend on Sudanese oil…but hey, who cares???
Margo can’t exploit this catastrophe to whack the “YANKS” with so the dead of Darfur can simply GO TO HELL! WHAT A NASTY, RUTHLESS C@NT she is!“Yank” also has some sexual connotations.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 03 16 at 07:45 PM • permalinkI once wrote to Ms. Kingston and congratulated her on the use of the slang term ‘Yank’ to describe Americans.
I also wondered whether, having set the trend, she would begin to use terms such as ‘Poofs’, ‘Abbos’ and ‘Slopes’ all part of common usage, to describe other groups.
She never replied, though what’s good for the goose…....
Camelopard! I haven’t heard that word in years.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 16 at 08:44 PM • permalinkThen why don’t they call it a diaper, damn it.
Actually I’ve learned a lot of Aussie and British slang from the blogs. I enjoy it a great deal. The other day I emailed a friend in gest to “go sod off, swampy”. He laughed and asked what it meant. To be honest, I still don’t know. But it’s etched in my memory forever
Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 16 at 09:45 PM • permalinkFrom “The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce.
Yankee (n.) In Europe any American, in America any New Englander. In The South this word does not exist (see Damnyank).
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 03 16 at 11:44 PM • permalinkHere’s one of the best reference sites on the Web, for all your insulting needs: The Racial Slur Database.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 03 17 at 01:32 AM • permalinkAndrea - I know, it just seems to have evaporated! I first ran across it when reading Belloc’s “The Bad Child’s Book Of Beasts.” Being fairly young, I didn’t realize how old the book was, and was terribly confused by the fact that the picture sure looked like a giraffe but was being called a camelopard; I think I decided that it must be what they said in England. I wonder, why did it fall out of favour?
To the rest of the world, a Yankee is someone from the US.
To people from the US, a Yankee is someone from North of the Mason Dixon line.
To people from North of the Mason Dixon line, a Yankee is someone from New England.
To people from New England, a Yankee is someone from Connecticut.
To people from Connecticut, a Yankee is someone from Bridgeport.
To people from Bridgeport, a Yankee is someone who pours Maple Syrup on his oatmeal.triticale: what’s wrong with maple syrup on oatmeal? And I’m from Florida, South of the South. I’m so confused…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 17 at 09:29 PM • permalink
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Nobody’s tried Yankistan. It ought to be good for some rhetorical purpose or other.
Yank itself is inoffensive everywhere, as far as I know.