You callin’ me a “Yank?”
Them’s fightin’ words in these parts, hoss.
This message has not reached all your compatriots. There is a message board, run by American ex-pats here in the UK, called UK-Yankee.com
Down here, we fought a rather large-scale war against “Yanks” a few years back.
Obviously not all uses of the work “Yankee” by Americans fall into this rubric. The New York Yankees, for example, take their name from the connotation of the national nickname, the meaning usually only employed by non-Americans. They aren’t claiming to represent Ma and Pa Kettle, after all.
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Yes, and you lost. Get over it. 
This reminds me of a time in Dublin when I happened upon an establishment with the oxymoronic name (to American ears) “The Yankee Rebel” (featuring a large Confederate battle flag painted across the front of the place, IIRC).
“The Yankee Rebel?”
To balance the scales, I’m going to start a bar in Atlanta called “The English Rapparee.”
Go ahead, it’ll whoosh us all
And that’s just before Paradise.
Nah, the Dutch colonists were the first to apply it the English colonists. So, applied to Americans, it’s always been an “American” thing.
Though the Dutch picked it up from the Belgians, who applied it to them, back in the Old World, so if anyone has dibs, it’s the Belgians.
What do you callsomeone who speaks three or more languages?
Multi-lingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who only speaks one language?
An American.
I am afraid that equally applies to us Brits. We are notoriously famous for not learning and speaking other languages.
And there ya go. Not only does the American know nothing about Canada but the Canadian knows more about American history than the American. Well, can I at least get credit for understanding irony 
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I guess I should retaliate by coming up with a derogatory name for the Belgians but honestly I can’t think of anything more derogatory than “Belgian”.
(A joke I stole from some Englishmen…)
That , of course, is a direct pinch from the Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. According to that, the last taboo regarding swearing was to use the word Belgium.
Ya, but isn’t Yank just the polite form of Septic?
Erm…actually it’s a direct pinch from Monty Python (and unlike the fucking near water, I think they get full credit for this one.)
(BTW - Newark, huh? Lovely town from what I saw of it…have you ever been to the Newark we have named after it over here? No? Good! Didn’t translate well.)
Hee hee…somewhere on this board (I can’t remember what the original thread was) there’s a whole discussion on whether or not “Septic” was hate speech against us poor Americans. The concept of “taking the piss” was introduced, but rejected by the more tight assed amoung us.
I hate to disagree but the Belgium thing is from THHGTTG. I even have it on tape from the original radio show.
Yes I have never heard anything good about your Newark. At least the one in New Jersey , but I think there are a few more towns of the same name over there. I don’t know what they are like.
Yes, I know how you Poms hate to disagree but…
…and a Mr. St. John of Huntingdon said he couldn’t think of anything more derogatory than Belgians.
Under “Prejudice”, somewhere in the middle. I believe it predates THGTTG. And anyway that’s where I got it from.
And yes I was thinking of the one in New Jersey.
OK I think you win that one , but it’s news to me. Do you think Douglas Adams was aware of this Monty Python sketch when he wrote is Belgium piece ?