How the do dictionaries not have the origin of "Yankee"

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How the do dictionaries not have the origin of "Yankee" Oct 13, 2019 2:37:29 GMT _ likes this

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Post by dianachristensen on Oct 13, 2019 2:37:29 GMT

? Omfg, read much dictionary-keyholders???

His name was James Fenimore Cooper, look into it, asswits. And no, it has nothing to do with what's Dutch for "John".

Oh, but as long as they all added "Bootylicious" to their useless tomes, then they're good, right? How do these people have jobs?

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How the do dictionaries not have the origin of "Yankee" Oct 13, 2019 2:54:17 GMT _ likes this

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Post by dianachristensen on Oct 13, 2019 2:54:17 GMT

To clarify, y'all are not the asswits and don't need to look up James Fenimore Cooper.

Yankees, comes from Yingees/Yengees, however you want to spell it in English, which is what the English in America were called by many Native Americans.

The Dutch for "John" guess doesn't even remotely make sense, and the entries containing it universally contain "maybe", "perhaps" or "might". Like, if you didn't know, why didn't you keep looking? Etymology much?