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Old 08-25-2010, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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The word isn't even in my vocabulary; I don't use it. I know defintions for it but I find it rather lame.
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Old 08-25-2010, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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The word isn't even in my vocabulary; I don't use it. I know defintions for it but I find it rather lame.
Pretty much. If I or any of my friends were to use it in conversation, we would get looks from the rest of our friends asking why we just used the word yankee, of all things.
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Old 08-25-2010, 08:34 PM
 
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Anyone not from Texas...I remember before the invasion, we all had bumper stickers, "Damn Yankees GO HOME" hahahahaha
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Old 08-26-2010, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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The word isn't even in my vocabulary; I don't use it. I know defintions for it but I find it rather lame.
I'm a native Texan and I don't think I've ever even used the word before. I don't even remember the last time I heard anyone else use it. It's not really in my vocabulary either. I've always associated it with something people from my grandparents' time would talk about.
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Old 08-26-2010, 01:02 PM
 
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Yup, that's pretty much how I define it too. Much to my embarrassment, I'm half Yankee. Mom's from Connecticut...it's hard to get more Yankee than Connecticut. Even Massachusetts isn't as Yankee as CT is.
Too true. Indeed, one of Mark Twain's books is "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". He apparently considered Connecticut to be Yankee with a capital Y (and he was proud to live there).
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Old 06-12-2012, 07:20 AM
 
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Well, it is one of those things like little misspellings of ordinary every day words...it bugs me that I make the mistake! LOL
Totally agree with you. Maybe you should check out TypoBounty.com. I think you will enjoy it.
Long live Texas!
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Old 06-12-2012, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
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I'm a native Texan and still considered a Yankee, so I guess it really varies.
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Old 06-12-2012, 09:09 AM
 
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Yankees is anyone not from the south. You know, carpetbaggers, copperheads n such. That includes misery, cantuky, and bleedin kansas (keep bleedin).
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Old 06-12-2012, 09:46 AM
 
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The word isn't even in my vocabulary; I don't use it. I know defintions for it but I find it rather lame
So I'm the only one who when hears the word "Yankee" thinks baseball?
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Old 06-12-2012, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Somewheres Yonder
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So I'm the only one who when hears the word "Yankee" thinks baseball?
I'm with you. In fact, because of the team, New York is the only state I consider "Yankee". I really hate the team more than I do the people, though. (Go Rangers!)
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