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noisycricket
noisycricket Reader
1/23/09 12:24 p.m.
billy3esq wrote: That's because in Ohio, they are damn yanks. Only southerners are offended by being called "yankee" or derivatives thereof.

You will, of course, have to take that back. Yanks don't even know what the letter R is. We do.

Jensenman
Jensenman SuperDork
1/23/09 12:34 p.m.
billy3esq wrote:
aussiesmg wrote: ... Being an Aussie in Ohio nobody ever questioned me when I called them Damn Yanks....
That's because in Ohio, they are damn yanks. Only southerners are offended by being called "yankee" or derivatives thereof.

I was twelve years old before I learned 'damnyankees' wasn't all one word. And then I married one. From Rhode Island, no less.

Wally
Wally SuperDork
1/23/09 12:43 p.m.

I have been told I have a heavy New York accent. Inever thought so until I met my Inlaws. They kept asking me to repeat things like water and quarter, which in their silly upstate accents sound like Wahhter. Her uncle is conviced no decent person would talk like me and that I have probably broken some knees at a previous job.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
1/23/09 12:45 p.m.

Wally I always imagined you sounding like Ralph Kramden

Wally
Wally SuperDork
1/23/09 1:01 p.m.

The accent is a little different, but I have all the temper and rage. My wife had never seen the Honeymooners until a couple years ago. When I was laid up after a car accident I got the box set to pass time. She couldn't stop laughing at the parallels.

Jensenman
Jensenman SuperDork
1/23/09 1:10 p.m.

'HEY, NOAHATAN!'

Mental
Mental SuperDork
1/23/09 1:14 p.m.
Wally wrote: ... Her uncle is conviced no decent person would talk like me and that I have probably broken some knees at a previous job.

On occasion, a valuble thing for the in-laws to belive.

Luke
Luke Dork
1/23/09 3:24 p.m.
MitchellC wrote: Native Canadians trapped on film

"Let's get two birds stoned at once"

billy3esq
billy3esq Dork
1/23/09 3:34 p.m.
Jensenman wrote: I was twelve years old before I learned 'damnyankees' wasn't all one word. ...

There's a reason for that. Historically, a yankee was someone who lived up north, while a damn yankee was one that had moved down here. All you were likely exposed to as a youth were the latter.

Now, damn yankee has come to mean any yankee.

purplepeopleeater
purplepeopleeater New Reader
1/25/09 11:19 a.m.

Historically, " Damn Yankees" were the ones who came south wearing blue wool uniforms & freeing the slaves.

Mental
Mental SuperDork
1/25/09 5:02 p.m.
purplepeopleeater wrote: Historically, " Damn Yankees" were the ones who came south wearing blue wool uniforms & freeing the slaves.

Yeah, I think it may have been burning down my hometown that got the damm part added

HiTempguy
HiTempguy Reader
1/25/09 5:50 p.m.
"I own a Mazz-da"

Um, isn't that how its pronounced? I can't even think of another way to say it

RogerB
RogerB HalfDork
1/25/09 8:15 p.m.
HiTempguy wrote:
"I own a Mazz-da"
Um, isn't that how its pronounced? I can't even think of another way to say it

Down here, most people say "Mahz-da" and "Pah-sta". I guess it's kinda like the ol', "you say tomato, I say tomahto".

Osterizer
Osterizer HalfDork
1/25/09 8:26 p.m.

Maz-duh. Pas-tuh.

Florida's accents vary wildly. I blame the damnyankees.

Woody
Woody Dork
1/25/09 9:09 p.m.

Next time you Canadians run into Peter Klutt, please explain to him that it's a "Ray-dee-ator", not a "Rad".

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