🇬🇧Question To the UK!🇬🇧
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Why do you call all Americans "Yanks". For people from Boston this is very offensive. Call them Bloody Soxs. Cause people from Boston HATE the YANKEES!
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Lmao. If Pettite doesn't come back you will win the division. I don't want to give you any momentum.
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Do you honestly think by calling an American a "yank" someone from UK is referring to anything remotely to do with baseball? NO. I personally don't use the turm but get over it. It's slang used in banter mate.
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I havnt heard anyone under the age of 60 refer to Brits as Tommys lately, Vadan. I think it died with the pre sixties generation.
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VADAN wrote:
I know lol, but it's still funny.Do you honestly think by calling an American a "yank" someone from UK is referring to anything remotely to do with baseball? NO. I personally don't use the turm but get over it. It's slang used in banter mate.
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Rckningday wrote:
mind telling me the back story on the term Tommy.I havnt heard anyone under the age of 60 refer to Brits as Tommys lately, Vadan. I think it died with the pre sixties generation.
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Rckningday wrote:
No but they do comment on the british teeth 😼I havnt heard anyone under the age of 60 refer to Brits as Tommys lately, Vadan. I think it died with the pre sixties generation.
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I think yanks is a term from a song dunno what it's called but
Yankee doodle dandy is in it -
Nothing to do with baseball
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Rckningday wrote:
Lmao. If Pettite doesn't come back you will win the division. I don't want to give you any momentum.
Hahahahah lol
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Justin Duran wrote:
Rckningday wrote:
mind telling me the back story on the term Tommy.I havnt heard anyone under the age of 60 refer to Brits as Tommys lately, Vadan. I think it died with the pre sixties generation.
The reference to "Tommy" is for "Thomas/Tommy Atkins", it's a term for a British soldier. Some believe it's from the first world war, some say it was started from the Duke of Wellington.
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Potato is right on the Tommy reference. It became widespread in America during World War I. It's on par with us calling our soldiers doughboys or GI in those days. It was not derogatory at all, but just a term to call the British soldier in the field. Like yank to some extent. But don't forget that some older people in the American south below the Mason Dixon Line still call everybody in the northeast yanks.
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Rckningday wrote:
Potato is right on the Tommy reference. It became widespread in America during World War I. It's on par with us calling our soldiers doughboys or GI in those days. It was not derogatory at all, but just a term to call the British soldier in the field. Like yank to some extent. But don't forget that some older people in the American south below the Mason Dixon Line still call everybody in the northeast yanks.
After Harry Patch died last year, I don't think there are any true Tommys left now anyway.
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Rckningday wrote:
Where british soldiers filled in their name to John te army, tommy Atkins was te example name. Maybe that's were it came fromPotato is right on the Tommy reference. It became widespread in America during World War I. It's on par with us calling our soldiers doughboys or GI in those days. It was not derogatory at all, but just a term to call the British soldier in the field. Like yank to some extent. But don't forget that some older people in the American south below the Mason Dixon Line still call everybody in the northeast yanks.
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Join the army not john lol
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