Mysteries of vernacular: Yankee - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
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Is it a doodle dandy? A baseball team? The origins of the word yankee
are unclear, though its usage in America as a pejorative is
well-documented. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel track the varying levels
of contempt that the word yankee has elicited from the pre-Revolution era to today.
Though Yankee can refer to any U.S. resident, it is often used to describe a person from New England. How does this regional specificity relate to the history of the word and the American Revolution?
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Meet The Creators
- Director Jessica Oreck
- Producer Rachael Teel
- Educator Jessica Oreck, Rachael Teel
