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Re: Re Strategic Reserve.
Tobias Brox wrote:
> K.D.Balderson@lboro.ac.uk writes:
> > >And what do you change "American" to? United Statesian? USAer?
> > >Running capitalist dog?
> > I've seen this before somewhere - was the answer "Statian"?.
> What's wrong with "Yankee"?
Maybe much, maybe nothing.
It depends on where the person is from.
In Some quarters/areas 'Yankee' is an insult...
(This distinction is not widely known internationally,
I gather... A war was fought over it...)
8)>>
(cf calling a Scot an 'Englishman', etc...)
(and we are drifting a tad away from railroads...)
best
dave p