Grits, Yanks, bats

[Amy Z]

Wotan wrote:

> Actually (imagine the accent), we use Yank, not Yankee, since most 
of 
> us have enough nous to know that if he turns out to be a Southerner, 
> he'll punch us on the nose (and we'd never be so uncouth as to refer 
> to a lady as a Yank). 

I'm no lady.  Go right ahead.

> Rounders is a baseball-like game played by school-children with a 
> soft ball and a short bat (and coats piled up to make the bases). 
> This allows us to (a) claim we invented baseball and (b) loftily 
> dismiss it as a "children's game", thereby annoying any passing 
>Yank. 

Ah, thank you!  Now, I've heard of rounders, but I thought it was 
extinct, mere nebulous proto-baseball form that it is.  <g>  Actually, 
proper baseball historians know that whoever "invented" rounders 
(generations of British children, no doubt) deserves the title Parent 
of Baseball much more than Abner Doubleday.

Milz wrote:

> "Civil War"...there was nothing "civil" about the War Between the 
> States (AKA War of Northern Aggression) <wink>

And here I was thinking I had so carefully chosen a generic term.  
Goes to show I learned about the Civil War in a Connecticut high 
school (where we actually mention slavery as one of the causes of the 
war . . . horrors!).

The non-USans on this list are rapidly learning what every US American 
already knows:  one hundred and thirty years later, the Civil War/War 
Between the States/War of Northern Aggression/War to Free the Slaves 
still isn't over.

Amy Z

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