Re: Re Strategic Reserve.

[dave pierson <pierson@mail.dec.com>]

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