Hey DU Americans

[Guy_Montag]

that'll be most of you...

Do you object to being called Yanks or Yankies?

Just curious, someone seemed to hint it was bad form.

[JuniperLea]

1. i'm

a yankee doodle dandy! and proud of it!

[Kierkegaard]

2. I'm proud to be a Yankee

Doesn't bother me a bit.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. I don't like being called Yank

I found out in Canada that it's a slang term against Americans.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Several years ago, the owner of the guest house where I was staying

... said that he had concluded that there were two kinds of American visitors to Ireland -- "Americans" and "Yanks". The latter is not used as a compliment. Happily, he considered me one of the former.

In the Midwest where I live (Chicago), the word is used only to describe one of the baseball teams from New York. BTW, the correct spelling is Yankee.

[bobthedrummer]

5. No objection to being called a yank-but I might object to the context

like if you were a Texan RWer or foreign Bushie, sheesh, I am a yankee and rather ok with that.:hi:

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. I'm fine with it...

I'm born and raised in the northeast, so I am a yankee and there is no denying it!

[The empressof all]

7. I don't like it personally

Just curious, Do you like being called a Lymie? (Is that how you even spell it?). I'm not inquiring to be hostile in anyway I really am curious. I like the former poster think of the Yankees as a baseball team and Yank is just ...well... kind of has another connotation for me.

[Guy_Montag]

12. Is a Limie a Brit or an Englishman?

I'm Scottish, but no-one has ever called me a Limie, but I've been called Jock. I guess it depends on the context whether I accept it well or badly.

[DBoon]

8. Why not?

When I hear the term, it refers to the side in the US Civil War that eventually ended slavery, and 100 years later helped end domestic apartheid in the former Confederacy.

[donco6]

9. I always think of Yanks as being east of the Mississippi

Out here we don't think of ourselves as Yanks.

[nuxvomica]

10. "Yank" is ok with me

It's a familiar term but not, at least in my experience, a pejorative. I would equate it with calling an Englishman a "Brit".

[MalachiConstant]

11. sitting 15 minutes from providence

and about 40 from boston, i happen to be quite used to it. however, if we're talking sports i might get a little irked, damn yankees.

[PVnRT]

13. Yes, I do

Yankees are people from New England.

[jukes]

14. i wdnt have a problem w/it

but these confederates that surround my house might! southerners call northern americans "yankee" in a disparaging sense; still want to think they won the american civil war.

i'm a "yankee" to them because i was born/raised in the north. THEY might get kung fu'd, depending on circ's; i wdnt be offended by anyone w/ any of the commonwealth accents calling me "yank" or "yankee".

[VelmaD]

15. Speaking as a southerner...

most of us don't like being called Yankees.

[baldguy]

16. To the world, a "Yankee" is an American.

To an American, a "Yankee" is from the northeast.
To a Northeasterner, a "Yankee" is from New England.
To a New Englander, a "Yankee" is from New Hampshire.
To a New Hampshirite, a "Yankee" is from the north half of the state.
To a Northern New Hampshirite, a "Yankee" lives in the woods, away from town.
To the guy living in the woods, a "Yankee" is a hick without running water or electricity.

[nuxvomica]

17. I've heard it this way...

To an American, a "Yankee" is from the Northeast.
To a Northeasterner, a "Yankee" is from New England.
To a New Englander, a "Yankee" is from Massachusetts.
To folks in Massachusetts, a "Yankee" is someone from Boston.
To Bostonians, a "Yankee" is someone who eats baked beans for breakfast.
:-)

[Downtown Hound]

18. I have no problem with it

but I've lived in the north all my life. As some have said, many Southerners don't like the term.