Show ORIGIN OF YANK EXPLAINED How the Nickname me Came to Be Ap Ap- plied piled to American Soldiers Told by Fenimore Cooper The nickname Yank as applied to the American soldier In France has hns Ji something of charm In the tradition of the word Persons Interested In the history of words worda may mn have hae noted with Interest a footnote In C Coopers Cooper's oI rs r's The It Is singular there should be any question concerning the origin of ot the well known sobriquet of Yankee Nearly all the old writers who spoke of the Indians first known to the colonists colonists col col- col- col make them pronounce the tin word English as ns Even Eyen at this day it Is la a a. provincialism of ot New England to say English instead of ot InrUsh Inglish and there Is n a close conformity conform conform- ity of or sound between the English and the latter latter lattu lat lat- more especially l It ter tu word as was probably th the case be pronounced short The he transition from Y thu thus pronounced to is It quite easy euy If U the former ii is pronounced pronounced pro pro- It Is almost Identical with Yankees and Indian words warda have seldom been bean spelt as they are pro pro- The liquids of at the Indian would easily convert En into Y Yen n |