Why start an arguement if you don't let people email replies back to you? You Americans are all the same - all mouth and no trousers. If you want a fight you've got one Yank scum.
2006-10-31 23:51:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
You can't pose a question like this without letting everyone in on it. I am about to go for some lunch now and I will be thinking about this for the next hour. What is the argument about? Why doesn't isitdejuvu4u2 want people to e-mail him/her? Why does this Ya-er want to e-mail them? Are all Americans the same? How difficult would it be to find something to wear if you were all mouth? How big would the toothbrush have to be? If there are no trousers, would men have to wear skirts? Is there life on Mars? If a tree fell in a forest......etc etc
2006-10-31 23:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning “little Jan” or “little John,” a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Britainers as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New Britain. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union. Now the term carries less emotion—except of course for baseball fans.
Now stick that up your big fat Yankie bum, looser.
2006-11-01 00:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oooooooooooooh we got some beef on dis page
2006-10-31 23:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why should I listen to your anger. you already have an opinion based on nothing valid. You don't even know why we're called yanks.
2006-10-31 23:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by uknowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I resent that.
Go email him about it. Get off yahoo answers.
2006-11-01 00:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by I think... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Settle down chaps
Jacq - your anwswer actually made me laugh out loud - like what you did there :-)
2006-11-01 00:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by Amanda Kate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enough already, no fighting today chaps OK.
2006-11-01 03:05:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cant you just smell the testosterone?
grow up peeps, take your fight elsewhere.
2006-11-01 00:06:40 · answer #8 · answered by Emma B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oooo! meow! Whats all this then?
2006-10-31 23:56:04 · answer #9 · answered by Kizzy_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alrighty then!
2006-10-31 23:57:45 · answer #10 · answered by daveyh_09 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋