Where are you from?

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

Born in Winchester, Mass. Raised in Billerica, Mass. Four years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club. Live in Weymouth, Mass. Dyed in the wool Yankee.

And I woulda figured you would be a Red Sox Man. Oh well....Go Yankees!

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by icehog3

And I woulda figured you would be a Red Sox Man. Oh well....Go Yankees!

Ah! There's the rub. ONLY New Englanders are actual Yankees, New Yorkers are traditionally Knickbockers. It was the Dutch of New Amsterdam That named the British colonists of New England Yankees, which means "John Cheese" in Dutch. The British transferred the name to us as a derogation. Our ancestors embraced it as an act of defiance. Another reason to hate the NY Highlanders. Go Sox!

[Don Fernando]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

Ah! There's the rub. ONLY New Englanders are actual Yankees, New Yorkers are traditionally Knickbockers. It was the Dutch of New Amsterdam That named the British colonists of New England Yankees, which means "John Cheese" in Dutch. The British transferred the name to us as a derogation. Our ancestors embraced it as an act of defiance. Another reason to hate the NY Highlanders. Go Sox!

its the other way around my friend. The Brits called the Dutch 'Yankees', a combination of 2 common Dutch names "Jan" and "Kees". Kees (as it's pronounced in English) does not mean cheese in Dutch.

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

its the other way around my friend. The Brits called the Dutch 'Yankees', a combination of 2 common Dutch names "Jan" and "Kees". Kees (as it's pronounced in English) does not mean cheese in Dutch.

I got that from a documentary on early colonial New York. I should have looked that up, first.

[MarkinAZ]

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

its the other way around my friend. The Brits called the Dutch 'Yankees', a combination of 2 common Dutch names "Jan" and "Kees". Kees (as it's pronounced in English) does not mean cheese in Dutch.

Originally Posted by Subvet642

I got that from a documentary on early colonial New York. I should have looked that up, first.

That's ok Darren. Ferdi just pretends to know Dutch

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by MarkinCA

That's ok Darren. Ferdi just pretends to know Dutch