Show 1 X CO HOW t 3 YANKEE OSCEA TERM OF HAS liAS CHANGED t. t According to the best historical f Information the word Yankee g 4 was 01 born In the attempt a of the thet t Indians to pronounce the word English Their broad guttural X accent gave the word a sound which would be Ile nearly represented represented 7 rented In this way wal f the letter g being pronounced y l f hard and approaching to the Y sound of at k with a strong aspi aspi- t rate The Dutch settlers about New Amsterdam having baving picked the word up from the Indians f applied It In contempt to the f Inhabitants of New En England land In Inthe Inthe f the tho long dispute of the territory terri terri- X tory r r. The tort word apparently fell tell Into into In in- to disuse In the Intervening In-I In years until the tie British soldiery t revived re It Immediately before 1 the revolution In sneering reference ref reference to the Colonials However However How now It ever after the battle of Lexington Lexington Lex ington the New Englanders adopted the name nome as their own owa A few months thereafter a privateer privateer fitted out bore the name of Yankee Hero In the war between the states the word ord was WOI used In 10 the South Sooth as aa a name for the Union aol sol soldiery diery but In the World war the custom of the British soldiery to refer to all Americans Americana as Yanks this teaks this time In comradeship comrade comrade- ship ship has has brought about a anew new Dew Interpretation Kansas Kansas City Star |