#vermonter

Yankee-Doodle, or The American Satan ~

Lettered with the title, followed by two lines of verse and "Jos. Wright ad speculum delin. / Pub. by Ebeenezor Scalpp'em on the Banks of the Ohio"

A macaroni? Political satire: a man in an oval with his hands in his pockets.  c.1776 ~Etching by the American artist in London, Joseph Wright, and probably etched in 1780 when a picture he exhibited at the RA caused some controversy. © The Trustees of the British Museum

No one is really sure where the word Yankee came from. Some say a British general named James Wolfe used it first in 1758 when he was commanding some New England soldiers. Others say the word comes from the Cherokee word eankke, which means coward. Some say it comes from a Dutch word, since many immigrants from the Netherlands settled in the northeast part of the United States.

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

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