billy3esq wrote: That's because in Ohio, they are damn yanks. Only southerners are offended by being called "yankee" or derivatives thereof.
You will, of course, have to take that back. Yanks don't even know what the letter R is. We do.
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Jan. 23, 2009 12:24 p.m. noisycricket Reader
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Jan. 23, 2009 12:34 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork
billy3esq wrote:
aussiesmg wrote:
... Being an Aussie in Ohio nobody ever questioned me when I called them Damn Yanks....
That's because in Ohio, they are damn yanks. Only southerners are offended by being called "yankee" or derivatives thereof.
I was twelve years old before I learned 'damnyankees' wasn't all one word.
And then I married one. From Rhode Island, no less.
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Jan. 23, 2009 12:43 p.m. Wally SuperDork
I have been told I have a heavy New York accent. Inever thought so until I met my Inlaws. They kept asking me to repeat things like water and quarter, which in their silly upstate accents sound like Wahhter. Her uncle is conviced no decent person would talk like me and that I have probably broken some knees at a previous job.
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Jan. 23, 2009 12:45 p.m. John Brown SuperDork
Wally I always imagined you sounding like Ralph Kramden
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Jan. 23, 2009 1:01 p.m. Wally SuperDork
The accent is a little different, but I have all the temper and rage. My wife had never seen the Honeymooners until a couple years ago. When I was laid up after a car accident I got the box set to pass time. She couldn't stop laughing at the parallels.
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Jan. 23, 2009 1:10 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork
'HEY, NOAHATAN!'
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Jan. 23, 2009 1:14 p.m. Mental SuperDork
Wally wrote: ... Her uncle is conviced no decent person would talk like me and that I have probably broken some knees at a previous job.
On occasion, a valuble thing for the in-laws to belive.
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Jan. 23, 2009 3:24 p.m. Luke Dork
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Jan. 23, 2009 3:34 p.m. billy3esq Dork
Jensenman wrote:
I was twelve years old before I learned 'damnyankees' wasn't all one word.
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There's a reason for that. Historically, a yankee was someone who lived up north, while a damn yankee was one that had moved down here. All you were likely exposed to as a youth were the latter.
Now, damn yankee has come to mean any yankee.
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Jan. 25, 2009 11:19 a.m. purplepeopleeater New Reader
Historically, " Damn Yankees" were the ones who came south wearing blue wool uniforms & freeing the slaves.
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Jan. 25, 2009 5:02 p.m. Mental SuperDork
purplepeopleeater wrote:
Historically, " Damn Yankees" were the ones who came south wearing blue wool uniforms & freeing the slaves.
Yeah, I think it may have been burning down my hometown that got the damm part added
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Jan. 25, 2009 5:50 p.m. HiTempguy Reader
"I own a Mazz-da"
Um, isn't that how its pronounced? I can't even think of another way to say it
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Jan. 25, 2009 8:15 p.m. RogerB HalfDork
HiTempguy wrote:
"I own a Mazz-da"
Um, isn't that how its pronounced? I can't even think of another way to say it
Down here, most people say "Mahz-da" and "Pah-sta". I guess it's kinda like the ol', "you say tomato, I say tomahto".
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Jan. 25, 2009 8:26 p.m. Osterizer HalfDork
Maz-duh. Pas-tuh.
Florida's accents vary wildly. I blame the damnyankees.
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Jan. 25, 2009 9:09 p.m. Woody Dork
Next time you Canadians run into Peter Klutt, please explain to him that it's a "Ray-dee-ator", not a "Rad".
