Aye, I know. I've written this before: If that's the case, why did GIs sing "Over there - Over there ... Cos the Yanks are comin', the Yanks are comin'"? Presumably the US allies in WW II did include souterners. The song didn't have the addition "Cos the Yanks (and their southeren brethren) are comin' ..." :-)

Besides, I thought the southerners called the northerners "yankies".

In any case, "yanks" is our version of your "limeys" and applies to all of yez.

>To Americans, a Yank is an American born in one of the Northern states (from the Civil war). It is usually just used by Southerners or by northern born Americans living in the South.
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>>>>>>I'd have thought that the word "lemon" originates from a place where they would grow, originally, and that wasn't England.
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>>>>>Lemons come from Southern Europe (Greece probably). What your area has is "limeys". {gd&r}
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>>>>Ah, well, quite topically, as I understand it, the Americans started calling British sailors "limeys" because of their habit of eating "limes" to stave off scurvy, and lemons, in those days, were called "limes".
>>>>To me it doesn't sound like a disparaging or insulting soubriquet, suggesting, as it does, healthy body and eating, unlike some of the American words for other foreigners.
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>>>>Yah Boo Sucks!
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>>>Not insulting enough?
>>>Splintering barnacles! I failed!
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>>I thought yesterday was talk like a pirate. Is today repeat like a parrot?
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>>I can't even call you a yank (which yanks call themselves anyway) as you're not native, are you?