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Monday, 4 July 2016

Word Of The Day #4.

                                                    Yankee  


                                                                                      noun YANG-kee 

Definition

1 a : a native or inhabitant of New England
b : a native or inhabitant of the northern United States
2 : a native or inhabitant of the United States

Examples

"I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut…. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees…." — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

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