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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:04:49 PM   
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Yep. Man of Kent, not Kentish Man - and proud of it.



Bob Monkhouse was also famously a man from Kent. He said once, "Everywhere I go, people seem to know which county I was born in. I can hear them muttering it: "Kent . . . Kent . . . Kent . . . .' "

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:08:09 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:08:42 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:11:29 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:12:56 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:43:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Merriam Webster
Function: noun. Date: 1778.
Yank: Yankee
(spelling with a capitalised "Y")

Yankee
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date:1758
2: a native or inhabitant of the United States

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:48:29 PM   
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Yanks: People born NORTH of the mason dixon line, or more accurately anyone not born in the state of Texas.

Or an American who isn't defining himself solely by being on the losing side of the civil war...

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 2:58:56 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:07:17 PM   
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Obvs.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:08:25 PM   
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Why don't Limeys spell it Yanqui, given their predilection for extraneous vowels in common words?

'coz that type of spelling would be typically French, not English!

And we don't have 'extraneous' vowels in common words, you Yankees ripped 'em out coz your early pilgrims (correction, our early deserters) couldn't spell for toffee!! Most couldn't even read or write.
Even now, most of your recipes, even modern ones, still use 'cups' as a measure!

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:12:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		It does always really puzzle me that the yanks make a big deal of using the old Imperial measurements. How does that tie in with refusing to spell "colour" correctly as an act of cultural independence?

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:21:05 PM   
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It does always really puzzle me that the yanks make a big deal of using the old Imperial measurements. How does that tie in with refusing to spell "colour" correctly as an act of cultural independence?

Simple: ignorant, uneducated poor deserters who really didn't have a clue.
They used cups because they had no way of using any proper weights and measures - nobody was intelligent enough to bring a set of reference measures to reproduce them accurately.
As for spelling, most couldn't read or write so when they learned how to hold a quill they wrote the words how it sounded when they spoke - hence the proper spellings were lost.
Over the centuries, rather than use or learn the proper way, they re-invented things, gave them new words, and kept the old and attrocious spelling of yester-year.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:33:50 PM   
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Merriam Webster
Function: noun. Date: 1778.
Yank: Yankee
(spelling with a capitalised "Y")

Yankee
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date:1758
2: a native or inhabitant of the United States




Please note the date. It seems typically british to ignore history to prove they are right, when clearly they are wrong.

Moonhead, it has nothing to do with being on the losing side of a war, it has to do with being civilized. Up north you cant order sweet ice tea, grits, chicken fried steak, sausage gravy the general staples of civilized life. Those folks dont even know how to properly fry cat fish!

FYI, if the idiots in washington and I mean both sides, there will probably be a second civil war with politicians being on one side of it.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:51:28 PM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 3:52:38 PM   
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Yanks: People born NORTH of the mason dixon line, or more accurately anyone not born in the state of Texas.

Or an American who isn't defining himself solely by being on the losing side of the civil war...

LOL! I think this has QOTD potential.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 6:16:03 PM   
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No thanks.
I'm a Brit, and English to boot!



You are a bloody car trunk? Vauxhall or what? Bleedin; 'ell, mate.


Where I wuz dragged up, cars don't have 'trunks'.
Trees and elephants have those.

Thats called the 'boot'.
Where d'ya thunk the yankee phrase 'booty' comes from??
It's the ass-end!! Or should I say, arse-end. lol.



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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/7/2013 10:49:46 PM   
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and someone tells her that Dame Fookin' Helen Mirren is more Fit than her, the Yorkie.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/8/2013 5:51:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
Merriam Webster
Function: noun. Date: 1778.
Yank: Yankee
(spelling with a capitalised "Y")

Yankee
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date:1758
2: a native or inhabitant of the United States

Please note the date. It seems typically british to ignore history to prove they are right, when clearly they are wrong.

Moonhead, it has nothing to do with being on the losing side of a war, it has to do with being civilized. Up north you cant order sweet ice tea, grits, chicken fried steak, sausage gravy the general staples of civilized life. Those folks dont even know how to properly fry cat fish!

FYI, if the idiots in washington and I mean both sides, there will probably be a second civil war with politicians being on one side of it.

Are you challenging MW jlf??
It's a recognised international dictionary - not a colloquialised one for a particular country.

And yes, note the dates.
The use of the word(s) were in common use before your definition - no doubt created by another Yank who tried be be clever and define the meaning for their own use.


And who the fuck eats catfish?? 

I agree about the next probable civil war though.

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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/8/2013 5:59:41 AM   
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RE: Words the brits are using wrong. - 10/8/2013 7:12:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		To someone in the south, Yankee is anyone born above the Mason-Dixon line.
To those in the north, Yankee is anyone from New England.
To a New Englander, Yankee is anyone from Vermont.

To someone from Vermont, Yankee is either someone from the Northeast Kingdom or anyone who eats apple pie with cheese for breakfast.

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