What does mean "yankee"? Why anyone has though this word?
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The meaning and origin of the word yankee is debatable. As far as current meaning, If you live in the states it usually mean one from the north eastern united states. If you are from another country it means an american. \n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
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Here's a beauty:\n\nhttp://www.terryroy.com/yankees.html
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I agree.  It appears to mean disgusting or awful.  It seems to be of French origin, but doesn't translate as anything other than bweark.\n\nSomeone probably made it up.  It could be a combination of a couple of French words, but I don't know enough French to guess what they might be.\n\nEdit:  Thanks, PetiteFée.  When I googled the word, however, it showed up on a lot of sites that appeard to me to be in French language.  Could "Bweark" be a misspelling or an Anglicization of the word "Beurk"?\n\nEdit:  I tried to answer your email, but your address doesn't work.  The answer is that I live in America.
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It is of Spanish origin, and its meaning is "courteous." May also mean "court-dweller."
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The word gringo has different connotations in different parts of Latin America.  Where I come from, the word gringo is used actually as a term of endearment rather than pejoratively.  The more pejorative term is yanqui (= yankee).  As for the origin of the word, I was under the wrong impression that it came from the expression "green go home", which is an explanation that I've heard several times.  According to the wikipedia article cited below, this is not the case.\n\nYou ask if there is any racial component to the word, and the answer is no.  Contrary to what the wikipedia article below cited says, gringo is indeed applied to people of all colors and ethnicities who are from the United States.  (The article contends that the word is reserved for whites and blacks.)
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hello! i don't know, but you answered my question, when I asked for Yankee fan's email addresses. i think you gave me the wrong one, or messed it up, because when I tried emailing you, it didn't work. Could you try again, please? Thank you.\n\nkimmy
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Language is stochastic, which means that within the system of grammar there are unpredictable variations.  Calling the Bronx "The Bronx" started with a few people, and spread.\n\nIn California, some people call highway one "The One."  It is just a characteristic of language that every rule has an exception.
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i'm not 100% sure, but i'm taking US history and we were talking about that and it comes from a spanish term very similar to the term "yankee" and i'm not entirly sure what it means or how its spelled its pronouced "yawnkee" i believe.  that was the term for the Union and since the South wasn't a part of the Union in the Civil War then i guess thats why the North was referred to as "yankees".\n\nI hope that helps.
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I don't know the true origin of it. Always wondered what it meant, but I think it means, this isn't right.
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It is a real word it means 'not mixed'.\nIt is quite a badly written sentance though.
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One theory holds that "S" was already being used for or could be confused with a single, stolen base, sacrifice fly or sacrifice hit (bunt), second base, or even SS for shortstop. \n\nBut that prob'ly aint it at all. And some people do use SO for strike out The most common scoring system used today, and the one you'll find in your program, with it's diamond diagram and the positions numbered 1 for pitcher, 2 for catcher, 3 for 1st base, etc. was, according to the folks at Cooperstown, invented by one Henry Chadwick in 1874. \n\nApparently Mr Chadwick was just impressed with the harsh sound of the K in the word strike. Though I hardly ever hear that k sound from an umpire, most of them just sound like they are saying "Ssstryyyyyy!" or even just "Ryyyyyyyye!" \n\nSome people just put one K in the diamond for a strike out , some use Kc or a backwards K for a called third strike. Others put each strike in the diamond with an F for a foul strike. Some even keep a record of each pitch and where it crossed or didn't cross the plate, usually that is kept in a separate area for the pitchers stats and then compared later to the batters stats if ya wanta get that involved. They use a FK for foul strike and F for fouls after the 2nd strike. \n\nThat is way too fouled up for me. In fact I am one of those who gets fouled up by the 3 for 1st base, when I do try to score a game I use letters and numbers for the positions, 1 is firstbaseman, Cf center field, Ph pinchhitter. \n\nBut anyway that trying to keep a record of each pitch, or at least each strike, in the tiny diamond, some claim is the main evidence for another theory, the first strike was a vertical line "I", the second was the top angle line, the third the bottom angle.\n\nMaybe Old Chadwick just liked the K sound in his own name and used it, who Knows? K passa? 'K? \n\nThere kould be other theories but there is little evidence to support the theory that there are sekret Klan Konklaves goin on out there under the skoreboard.
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All that I can find is that it is a colloq. word that means dirty  as ab adjective  or pig, hog as a noun.  I don't see any precaution you know, other than the obvious that it is a vulgar word.  Useages differ from one group to another of Spainish speaker so...
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Fever...although some yanks say it like never.\n\nxxB
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I have never heard of it before but didn't find it offencive.  Even after it was explained by someone else.\nMaybe it wasn't this word that got the response deleted but something you'd said........\nI like it.\nI think I'll use it.  lol
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As a "hick" I must say that I have a true problem with most "Yankees." The main reason is that you think you are so much better than us.  We may speak a little slower, but there is a southern hospitality that no Yankee can understand.  For example, sometimes Yankees are so short and rude; you won't find that in the South. We are more likely to be polite and personal in all of our conversations! (No offense :) )
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A proper demonym for Connecticut has been a matter of long-standing debate and deliberation. For decades, the public printer of the U.S. has used Connecticuter in publications created by the Government Printing Office (GPO), but this has been widely ignored and derided outside official government. \n\nMainly we call outselves Yankees or Nutmeggers\nAlso acceptable:\nConnecticotian (Cotton Mather, 1702), Connecticutensian (Samuel Peters, 1781), and Connecticutter (California periodical Land of Sunshine, 1897). After these came Connectican (1942), Connecticutan (1946), Connecticutian (1947), and Connecticutite (1968).
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I live in Florida and here the locals call anyone from north of this county a yankee, and mean it as an insult.  I'm from Connecticut and don't in any way see it as an insult.  In the U.S. a yankee is anyone from East of New York, (New England).  That doesn't include New York.  And in Europe a yankee is an american from the U.S.  It's in the dictionary.\n\nIt's from the civil war era and the yankees are the ones that won the war and the rebels are still upset, even though you can hardly find one that knows why, they think it's because people with Michigan license plates drive bad.