Re: Tosca dress

Mark wrote:
Mrs T xx wrote:

Out of interest....while we're on American/British slang...... can
anyone advise me if it's considered racist/offensive to refer to
Americans as "Yanks"? It's a genuine question.... I'm not trying to
stir up trouble!!!! Was just curious.....

Mrs T xx


Dear Mrs T,
I've been to Europe 3 times in the past year and haven't heard the word
used once. The context I usually think of outside of America is "Yankee
Go Home". Inside the US, Yankees only refers to residents of New
England and New York. No self respecting Texan would ever let anyone
call him a Yankee.

When my friend and I arrived at New Orleans airport and had the bad luck to choose the world's most incompetent taxi driver, and then he got lost and we had to give him directions, he called us "Expletive-forgotten Yanks", presumably because he thought we were from the North East.

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