dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
I forget what the major in fawlty towers said, but i remember it was funny and the look on basils face, classic.
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
Pom is short for pomegranate. Rhyming slang for immigrant. There was no Prisoner of her mag. It was in my QI book that lived in the lav.frank lee bent wrote:yankees=
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john cheese from the dutch and huguenot immigrants to "new holland"
Pom is pretty unclear etymologically.
Prisoner of Mother England?
WOGS apparently is from the days of the suez canal where the workers had it stencilled on their uniforms
"Working on Government Service"
go on now- snopes me i dare ya
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
yeah its short for pomegranate, as the English Immigrants skin used to burn red in the Australian suncptrelentless wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:27 pmPom is short for pomegranate. Rhyming slang for immigrant. There was no Prisoner of her mag. It was in my QI book that lived in the lav.frank lee bent wrote:yankees=
Jan Kaas
john cheese from the dutch and huguenot immigrants to "new holland"
Pom is pretty unclear etymologically.
Prisoner of Mother England?
WOGS apparently is from the days of the suez canal where the workers had it stencilled on their uniforms
"Working on Government Service"
go on now- snopes me i dare ya
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what is the Racial undertone associated with Yank? i fail to see it?tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:21 pm " sure terms like Chink, Paki, Abbo, Nigger etc have much more racial implications but its a different ball park to Yank, Pom, Paddy, Jock, Frog etc"
My point exactly, but where does yank fit into this? in my experience the word is used most often by peple who don,t like americans. I agree with you some terms are friendly banter, pom,limey, kiwi etc, those terms have no racial undertones unlike yank.
What do our american friends say about this?
I was earwigging a crowd of brit package tourists in a bar in Goa a couple of years back, one of them said "the local pakis seem ok" he was probably a "thick northerner though"
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Yank is nothing to do with race, as its more often than not aimed at any specific race of people, where as Chink (asian) paki (indian/pakistani/bangledeshi etc) nigger (black/african) etc are aimed to insult the race of the person and label them as different,
Yank is no different to labeling an Irishman a Paddy, a Welshman a Taffy, a Scot a Jock, a Brit a Pom etc theyre not aimed at race but where the person comes from
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
If only Johnnie Reb had wontightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:06 pm It is short for Yankee.
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 Englanders 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 England. 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 Amerifcan 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.
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
Are you saying that white America did the same as black America did withe n word- and reclaimed the word yank to be only used amongst themselves?tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:06 pm It is short for Yankee.
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 Englanders 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 England. 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.
charlie
Maybe a north vs south thing for sure. the crackers are getting restless- even if do they now have Trump to calm their boots. Bout time they renamed New York, Trumpton.
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I got that from the internet
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
I should of made my user name - Seppee
Who cares people need to grow a set and quit taking things so seriously, where I grew up it was a verbal assault war, growing up in the "Your mamma is so fat..." days; you had to have wit and be quick, especially if you went at it with a couple black guys standing on the corner, when you got one in everyone laughed at that person, when someone got one good on you, you took it like a rat.
Seems some of my fellow younger American snowflakes have lost their sterner side.
Lot of Brits where I live, I call them red coats think I'll start calling the aussies toadies
Who cares people need to grow a set and quit taking things so seriously, where I grew up it was a verbal assault war, growing up in the "Your mamma is so fat..." days; you had to have wit and be quick, especially if you went at it with a couple black guys standing on the corner, when you got one in everyone laughed at that person, when someone got one good on you, you took it like a rat.
Seems some of my fellow younger American snowflakes have lost their sterner side.
Lot of Brits where I live, I call them red coats think I'll start calling the aussies toadies
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aka Yankee Gringo Gaijin aka Seppy Yank
aka Yankee Gringo Gaijin aka Seppy Yank
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