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11-09-2014, 11:34 AM

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Re: Where are you from?

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Originally Posted by Don Fernando

its the other way around my friend. The Brits called the Dutch 'Yankees', a combination of 2 common Dutch names "Jan" and "Kees". Kees (as it's pronounced in English) does not mean cheese in Dutch.

I got that from a documentary on early colonial New York. I should have looked that up, first.

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