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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mysteries of vernacular:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.59,0:00:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yankee,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.24,0:00:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a New England resident
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.86,0:00:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, more generally, a person who lives in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.38,0:00:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is from the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.25,0:00:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though the origin of Yankee is uncertain,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.24,0:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this all-American word most likely descended
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.92,0:00:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Dutch moniker Janke,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.63,0:00:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a diminutive meaning little Jan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.75,0:00:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or little John.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.68,0:00:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 17th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.52,0:00:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Janke was the common nickname of Dutch sailors,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.77,0:00:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pirates in particular.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.21,0:00:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Dutch pirate ship operating in the West Indies
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.77,0:00:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was even called the Yankee.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.67,0:00:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the years, Yankee transformed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.24,0:00:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a pirate's nickname
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.16,0:00:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a general term of contempt.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.75,0:00:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1758, British general James Wolfe
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.62,0:00:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,used Yankee as a pejorative term
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.58,0:01:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the colonists under his supervision.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.38,0:01:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the insult wasn't limited to soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.58,0:01:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yankee quickly came to mean New Englander,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.36,0:01:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by the 1780s,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.12,0:01:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was used to look down
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.60,0:01:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon any American.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.15,0:01:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the Revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.77,0:01:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colonists co-opted Yankee
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.02,0:01:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and transformed it into a mark of national honor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.11,0:01:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Civil War, however,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.91,0:01:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intensified the derisive definition
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.52,0:01:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it was used by Southerners
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.36,0:01:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mock members of the Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.77,0:01:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, it carries much less emotion,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.86,0:01:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.24,0:01:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're talking about baseball.