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There's a lot of ambiguity. Yes, many people outside the US use the term to refer to people from the US in general, but technically Yanks/Yankees are only the p
by jhbadger 4y ago
There's a lot of ambiguity. Yes, many people outside the US use the term to refer to people from the US in general, but technically Yanks/Yankees are only the people from New England (the Northeastern US states). Someone from the US South or West aren't Yankees.
- jleyank 4y agoI thought this was referring to us-ians outside the us. Granted there are regional differences inside that are unknown outside. But to the rest of the English speaking world, yank is from the us. And Canadians aren’t Americans, Scots aren’t British or English and only a smaller portion of the Irish won’t get real offended if they’re not called Irish. Significant differences between Quebec and the rest of Canada but unless they’ve visited they probably going to lump them all as Canadians. Pro tip: try not to do this, listen for the accent.