Yankees; was Re: FRIGIDAIRE and KLEENEX (was ICE BOX)

[James C Stalker]

The search is on my agenda.

Jim

Laurence Horn writes:

> At 9:54 PM -0500 3/2/05, James C Stalker wrote:
>> I, a non-yankee by any measure but the international one, was told, on
>> this
>> site some years ago, that te ur-yankee was not only from Vermont, but
>> from
>> the Green Mountains and ate apple pie for breakfast.  How's that for
>> defining sociolinguist variables?  That paraphrase is from memory.  Give
>> me
>> a few days and I can probably find the poster, and maybe even the
>> original
>> post, should anyone want to know.
>>
>> Jim
>
> I would.  I just tried an archive search and didn't come up with it,
> although there was one of Barry's involving "R U A Yankee"
> diagnostics from the eponymous monthly that looked promising for a
> moment.
>
> Larry
>
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James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University