> > In England once, I was called a "Yank" and I think I said "I'll tell ya wut, boy, you all don't know what a real Yankee is."
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> This was my experience too! Of course, in my case, I *am* a Yankee, but the kids in the British school I went to basically just called all Americans Yankees.

They tend to do that. I would certainly have called you a Yank if I'd been at school with you. We don't usually know how to tell if someone is a real Yankee or even what the definition actually is, but then, would the average American be able to define a true Cockney?

Unfortunately, kids will tend to use such terms in a derogatory sense more often than not. We have plenty of them for various nations, if truth be told. I think the only one I use with a vengeance is "Frogs", for our European neighbours over the Channel.

Bea"Half Scouser, half Essex boy"sty