So I'm 54% Met?
Feb. 19th, 2004 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramThe Yankee or Dixie linguistic quiz has me at 46% Yankee. Which is fair — “Yankee” is a moving target.
Outside of the US, a Yankee is an American.
In the southern US, a Yankee is a northerner.
In the rest of the north, a Yankee is someone from New England. As a New Yorker, I’m therefore not a Yankee.
In the rest of New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont.
In Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie with cheddar cheese on it.
On the other hand, Wikipedia’s entry on the word suggests that it might have originated in a nickname the Dutch had for English settlers in New York’s early days: Jan Kees, or “John Cheese”.
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immlass, whose definition of “Yankee” will soon be shifting a slot down that list.
Outside of the US, a Yankee is an American.
In the southern US, a Yankee is a northerner.
In the rest of the north, a Yankee is someone from New England. As a New Yorker, I’m therefore not a Yankee.
In the rest of New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont.
In Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie with cheddar cheese on it.
On the other hand, Wikipedia’s entry on the word suggests that it might have originated in a nickname the Dutch had for English settlers in New York’s early days: Jan Kees, or “John Cheese”.
I got the quiz from
immlass, whose definition of “Yankee” will soon be shifting a slot down that list.