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Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion

From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:44:47 EDT

> > Side note: one of the proposed derivations of the term Yankee is that
> > it comes from the Dutch name Janke, pronounced Yanke.

Yes, but let's have the others as well. Some say it is from the Dutch "Jan
Kaas" = "John Cheese", that is a dairy farmer.

My favorite, wouldn't you know, is that it is derived from the Cherokee word
"e-an-ke" = 'coward'. Unlikely, but I like it.

James (the unreconstructed) </HTML>

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- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Bunjov, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Bunjov, 04/29/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Steve Oliphant, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Bunjov, 04/29/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Gene GeRue, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Clansgian, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Bunjov, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Clansgian, 04/29/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Lynda, 04/30/2008
- Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Clansgian, 04/29/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Gene GeRue, 04/29/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Marie McHarry, 04/29/2008
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      - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Marie McHarry, 04/30/2008
      - Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion, Gene GeRue, 04/30/2008
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