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From: "Drew Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Regionalisms
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:51:03 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Elissa Scalise Powell, CG
<> wrote:
> What is that old joke? ... to a Southerner a Yankee is anyone from above the
> Mason-Dixon. To a Pennsylvanian a Yankee is a New Englander. To a New
> Englander, a Yankee is from Maine. To someone from Maine, a Yankee is ____?
> And that's where my memory loses it.

To someone from Maine, a Yankee is someone who eats (apple) pie for breakfast.

Drew Smith


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