OFFER HAS ENDED.

(( Yankee.info ))

2 full years of registration left; doesn't expire until December 2006.

What I'm interested in trading for: High quality single word .us domain(s). All categories.

Post, PM or email.

Thanks.

--------------------------------------------------------------

Yankee.info

Great word. Great name. A long and proud history.

A description. A type of person. And one of the most famous
sports teams in history (New York Yankees)

Definitions
- A native or inhabitant of New England.
- A native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, especially a Union soldier during the Civil War.
- A native or inhabitant of the United States.

Interesting notes
Besides the New York Yankees baseball team, you will also recall the famous song of "Yankee-Doodle" - a popular tune which was adopted as one of the national airs of the United States.

Word History: The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning “little Jan” or “little John,” a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union. Now the term carries less emotion except of course for baseball fans.

[Dutch Janke, nickname of Jan, John.]

Source: Dictionary.com