OK this is not my thought exactly as a matter of fact it's quote from Elwyn Brooks White.....you know E.B. White.....the author......the guy who wrote Charlotte's Web, and Stuart Little.
Yeah...I didn't know his name was Elwyn either.....hell I didn't know the same guy wrote both books....isn't Google amazing??....but that's a subject for a different day.
Anyway I work with a lot of Brits....I mean a lot....the company I work for is like 98% British....well it's a British company so it should be right??....unlike Britain itself which is only about 20% British at this point...but that too is a subject for a different day.
ANYWAY....as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself....working with Brits got me to dwelling on the term Yank...or Yankee.
Where did it originate? Why do non-Americans call us all Yankees? Yet in America only northerners are Yankees, or if your from the south, anyone who "ain't" is a Yankee.
So I started looking for answers, I Google'd, I Yahoo'd, I sweetIM search'd, I even Wikipedia'd (Yeah I know..Wikipedia???!).....alas I have come to the conclusion.....no one knows!!! No one!! Oh there are theories and conjectures...some of them are even pretty good, but no one knows!!!
Which brings us back to MR. E.B. White....(if my name was Elwyn I'd probably use my initials too)
During all my "Research" I came across this quote that pretty much sums it all up very nicely and even adds to it a little..I guess if I was a "Connecticut Yankee" I would have known this.
Isn't it Strange that
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
E.B. White
Yeah...I didn't know his name was Elwyn either.....hell I didn't know the same guy wrote both books....isn't Google amazing??....but that's a subject for a different day.
Anyway I work with a lot of Brits....I mean a lot....the company I work for is like 98% British....well it's a British company so it should be right??....unlike Britain itself which is only about 20% British at this point...but that too is a subject for a different day.
ANYWAY....as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself....working with Brits got me to dwelling on the term Yank...or Yankee.
Where did it originate? Why do non-Americans call us all Yankees? Yet in America only northerners are Yankees, or if your from the south, anyone who "ain't" is a Yankee.
So I started looking for answers, I Google'd, I Yahoo'd, I sweetIM search'd, I even Wikipedia'd (Yeah I know..Wikipedia???!).....alas I have come to the conclusion.....no one knows!!! No one!! Oh there are theories and conjectures...some of them are even pretty good, but no one knows!!!
Which brings us back to MR. E.B. White....(if my name was Elwyn I'd probably use my initials too)
During all my "Research" I came across this quote that pretty much sums it all up very nicely and even adds to it a little..I guess if I was a "Connecticut Yankee" I would have known this.
Isn't it Strange that
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
E.B. White
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