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Yankee?

• readthenotes1 4y ago
  That would offend many people in the southeastern United States
  • jjtheblunt 4y ago
    true. i think Yanks is common though for overseas referal to US citizens, since they don't bother honoring the confederacy or something like that.
    • gnicholas 4y ago
      Most of the online dictionaries I checked showed that "Yankee" is a derogatory or possibly offensive word, including in British English. This is not a purely domestic (US-based) connotation.
      • tivert 4y ago
        > Most of the online dictionaries I checked showed that "Yankee" is a derogatory or possibly offensive word, including in British English. This is not a purely domestic (US-based) connotation. I believe Yankee originated in the Revolutionary War era as a kind of slur used by the British against Americans, but then was reappropriated.