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Re: gringo/yankee

#3217 06/04/2000 1:12 PM

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AnnaStrophic

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AnnaStrophic

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lower upstate New York

JM,

Yep, Mark Twain wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." I guess "Connecticut" is a tad superfluous for a foreign-language book/film title But I think the term precedes Twain. Maybe it comes from a Native American word?

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