Please don't tell me it's because of that bloody song
2007-03-24 08:01:24 · 10 answers · asked by Milking maid 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Suck ma dick
I'm sorry, but I've seen that pathetic attempt of a computer generated 'flipping the bird' too many times.
2007-03-24 08:10:00 · update #1
tegidfoel,
Paisley reminds me of a petulant child, who stomps and screams until they get what they want........and they usually do.
2007-03-25 00:21:23 · update #2
Actually, this is an interesting one.
Yank comes from Yankee. This is quite simple. For Southerners, anyone coming from the north was a Yankee, simply because New York was the most important city in the north, commercially speaking.
As for Yankee, the origin is in "Jean Cheese", the despective way the British used to call the Netherlanders who colonised and funded New York, after buying the island of Manatan (Manhattan) from the indians.
As things happened, the Brits exterminated the "Jean Cheeses"... Ethnic cleansing, I think is called.
2007-03-24 09:06:05 · answer #1 · answered by felipelotas1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say....it's because of that bloody song!
Pre-dates the American revolution, used by the Brits to diminish their American cousins as it were.
And the Brits could never figure out why, in their colonizing days, people didn't like them.
Speaking of which, looks like Paisley is going to get his way.
2007-03-24 15:48:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was told it was, because of the baseball team the Yankees.
They were the biggest thing in America way back when and the other countries started to call us yanks.
2007-03-24 15:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by $~*Fearless*~$ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because,the song Yankee doodle talks about American indepents.So people in a diff rent country they call us yanks.
2007-03-24 15:06:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it because, during the American civil war, the Southern States called the North 'Yankees', and it stuck??
2007-03-24 15:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by sallybowles 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much it was in the civil war, i think it was the southen states were called yankees (as in new york yankees), and the name just stuck.
2007-03-24 15:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sabre 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bloody song? well, thats an insult ..
we called you tommies too but i don't think there was a song involved...the british called us sammies but it did not catch on sammies for uncle sam..
a rose by any name would still smell the same....
2007-03-24 15:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by Louella R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, it's the bloody song and the doodles town visits
2007-03-24 15:24:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because of that bloody song
2007-03-24 15:04:03 · answer #9 · answered by fall 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because we toss off so much.
2007-03-24 15:05:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋