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The word Yankee is a variation that could have referred to the Dutch Americans. The Dutch given names Jan ("John") and Kees ("Cornelius") were and still are common and the two sometimes are combined in a single name, e.g., Jan Kees de Jager. Most linguists look to Dutch sources, noting the extensive interaction between the colonial Dutch in New Netherland (now largely New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and western Connecticut) and the colonial English in New England ( Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut). New Netherland is to the northwest, and New England is to the northeast.
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James Fenimore Cooper, the writer of the classic tale "The Deerslayer" made a non-fiction footnote that claimed, "There can be little doubt that the sobriquet of "Yankees" is derived from "Yengees," the manner in which the tribes nearest to New England pronounced the word "English." The change from "Eng-lish" to "Yengees" is very trifling." Despite his being a prominent writer from the early 1800s, and comparatively close to when the word originated, his version of the word origin is rejected by professional linguists writing for the Merriam-Webster book of word histories. Linguists, however, do not support any Native American origins. One such surmises that the word is borrowed from the Wyandot (called Huron by the French) pronunciation of the French l'anglais (meaning "the Englishman" or "the English language"), sounded as Y'an-gee. Etymologies purporting an origin in languages of the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States are not well received by linguists. Many faulty etymologies have been devised for the word, including one by a British officer in 1789 who said it derived from the Cherokee word eankke ("coward"), but no such word exists in the Cherokee language. Rejected theories of a Native American origin In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States (though not to recent emigrants from Europe thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, "The enterprising people are mostly strangers Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called"). As early as the 1770s, British people applied the term to any person from what became the United States. Mark Twain, in the following century, used the word in this sense in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, published in 1889. In the 18th century, it referred to residents of New England descended from the original English settlers of the region. The meaning of Yankee has varied over time.
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New Englanders themselves employed the word in a neutral sense: the " Pennamite-Yankee War", for example, was the name given to a series of clashes in 1769 over land titles in Pennsylvania, in which the "Yankees" were the claimants from Connecticut. Later British use of the word often was derogatory, as in a cartoon of 1775 ridiculing "Yankee" soldiers. In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the United States, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: "I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance".
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Loyalist newspaper cartoon from Boston ridicules "Yankie Doodles" militia who have encircled the British forces inside the city Early usage The Southern American English "Yankee" is typically uncontracted and at least mildly pejorative, although less vehemently so as time passes from the American Civil War. The informal British and Irish English "Yank" is especially popular among Britons and Australians and sometimes carries pejorative overtones. Within Southern American English, "Yankee" refers to Northerners, or those from the regions of the Union side of the American Civil War.The speech dialect of New England is called "Yankee" or "Yankee dialect." Its sense is more cultural than literally geographic. Within the United States, it usually refers to people from the north, largely those from the northeast, but especially those with New England cultural ties, such as descendants from colonial New England settlers, wherever they live.Outside the United States, "Yank" is used informally to refer to any American, including Southerners.Its various senses depend on the scope of context. The term " Yankee" and its contracted form " Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. For other uses, see Yankee (disambiguation).