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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Immigration ... #18756 02/16/01 11:29 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Canucks is okay by me. We generally use it to refer to ourselves...I'm not sure how I would react to an American using it (not having had the opportunity to try that!) Depends on if it's used in a derogatory sense, I guess. Or if the person is somehow making fun of the word. But there is an NHL team in Vancouver called the Canucks. And CK, I'd heard the quote about IQ before. The thing Canadians often find funny is that lots of Americans don't know their funniest people are imports. Somehow it gives us a feeling of power, a bit of control over a country which unknowingly (or not) controls a lot of the cultural "product" that we receive... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yankee #18757 02/16/01 02:22 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 52 Indianapolis transplanted to S... D des journeyman des journeyman D Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 52 Indianapolis transplanted to S... I am a transplant (from Indianapolis) to South Carolina... Down here in y'all land (buckle of the Bible Belt) I am not a Yankee to these people. A Yankee is from the Northeast. Whether this refers to personality or location, I am not sure. I may have been a Yankee 30 years ago when I moved here. Thirty years have made some changes. The natives have finally accepted most of "us". Yankee here is apt to be used as a derogatory description. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Canadians #18758 02/16/01 03:43 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Recreational and shopping trips to and from Canada are very common in Michigan; folks from Detroit cross over for entertainment, folks go across at Port Huron on their way to New York, folks come down to Traverse City for shopping, folks go to Stratford for Shakespeare. Canadian coins get spent as if they were US. "Canucks" is applied to Canadians, including immigrants, but I have never heard it uttered or taken as derogatory, but merely descriptive. Of course, there is so little difference between Ontario Canadians and Michiganians (especially yoopers) that prejoratives would be tantamount to pot/kettle/black. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 721 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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