Do you get as pissed when someone calls us USA folks "Yanks"? If you think about it, that word has nasty conotations! (Although sometimes our foreign policy makes that word quite apt! LOL).
JMHO, and that of Merriam-Webster
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Rick:
"Yanks"????? Those are fightin' words down here. I've had to correct many a visitor not to offend. lol
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John