For me, "damn yankee" follows the NP stress rule (damYANkee), not the compound stress rule (DAMyankee). In any case, I should not have used the expletive before this erudite audience, since, as all of y'all (that means every damn one of y'all) know, it's redundant. Bill (who is r-full and is not a double modaler, although his wife isn't and is)