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>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' ..." :-)
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>>Besides, I thought the southerners called the northerners "yankies".
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>>In any case, "yanks" is our version of your "limeys" and applies to all of yez.>
>I thought during the war you called them the Three Os! {g}
I didn't personally, you understand. No, the 3 Os was the definition of a yank.
And this was where the US pathetic, annoying belief that we STILL serve warm beer comes from. A country in a war of attrition, with air raids, diversion of resources to the war effort, etc. should be worried tat their traditional ale (not lager), served at cellar temp. for centuries, should be ice-cold.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
