Re: OT: Re: My suggestions for this Group

Heavens to Murgatroid wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>> squaredancer wrote:
>>> On 01/12/2006 14:10, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  David 
>>> McRitchie to generate the following:? :
>>>> I really thought  Yankee referred to the Revolutionary War
>>>> as in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"  British and the American versions,
>>>> and trading, and in the Civil War as opposite of the
>>>> Confederacy.    But I guess that's not quite correct, or more
>>>> to the point it has so many different meanings, now.
>>>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> yepp - as I said.... *everyone* west of the Irish Channel (and that 
>>> is EAST of Ireland) - probably also NORTH of the Panama Canal... 
>>> (includes New Orleans and all Lands west of the Mississipi) 
>>>
>>> reg
>> Where or what is the Irish Channel, asks an Irishman.
>> Bill
> its a neighbourhood in New Orleans: 
> http://www.answers.com/topic/irish-channel-new-orleans
Thanks for the info. Now I can understand the thread 
> 
> or the North Channel, an entrance to the Irish Sea between Northern 
> Ireland and Scotland, and more rarely to the Irish Sea itself: 
> http://www.answers.com/topic/north-channel-british-isles, 
> http://www.answers.com/topic/irish-sea
> 
> take your choice
> 

No choice really as the North Channel and Irish Sea are never referred 
to as Irish Channel.
Bill