[ SECRET POST #2099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2099 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[diplopod]

As a New Yorker, I find it really weird when anyone who isn't one calls themselves a "Yankee." Here it's pretty much interchangeable with "New Yorker."

On the other hand, a Finnish friend told me they call us (all of us, not just New Yorkers) "jenkki" already anyway, so... idk.

USian/USAian just sounds ridiculous.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[(Anonymous)]

Why do New Yorkers think they have a corner on the word 'Yankee'? Is it because of the team? I grew up in New England and we were all Yankees too. Hell, Yankee Magazine covers the New England states exclusively.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[diplopod]

Beats me. I just can't remember it being any different. I can roll with people from New England calling themselves a Yankee, even if it's a little odd for me.

Everyone in the States though, that's just silly.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yankee

Historically it applied to the New England states. "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" is probably the most famous example, and then there's the Yankee Candle Company based in Massachusetts. I'm not sure how the team adopted the name, but I'm assuming it's because of the widespread application of the term by the British to all colonists during the Revolutionary War.

Ironically it was once a slur used *by* the New York colonists to diss their neighbors in Connecticut.

Re: Americans, what would you rather be called...

[diplopod]

Huh, you learn something new every day.

I don't know anything about baseball or any team's history though, so I really couldn't say for the team. It probably is why New Yorkers think it refers only to them these days though.