In a message dated 97-02-04 10:47:13 EST, you write:
<< So then, where does the term yank come
from??? >>
I have heard that it was from a Dutch term, "Jankhe" (pronounced yahn-kay)
which was a formal term of address for Dutch men- kind of like the word "Sir"
to the British, but more common, which the non-dutch came to use to refer to
any New Amsterdam Dutch. It later came to refer to anyone on the Northeast
Coast, and, during the Civil War, evolved to refer to anyone from the North.
Paul Vander Woude
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