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Soli Brass & Zea Plays Moondog

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'Outsider music, Moondog, Louis Thomas Hardin, Soli Brass Zea, New York City' to 'New Amsterdam, Outsider music, Moondog, Louis Thomas Hardin, Soli Brass, Zea, nyc, 00s' - edited by Eklek

The Pirate's Dilemma

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I'm always curious when people use word etymology to politically persuade people. Here they said "janke" is Dutch meaning pirate. According to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=y the etymology of Yankee is:

"1683, a name applied disparagingly by Du. settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. It may be from Du. Janke, lit. "Little John," dim. of common personal name Jan; or it may be from Jan Kes familiar form of "John Cornelius," or perhaps an alt. of Jan Kees, dial. variant of Jan Kaas, lit. "John Cheese," the generic nickname the Flemings used for Dutchmen. It originally seems to have been applied insultingly to Dutch, especially freebooters, before they turned around and slapped it on the English. A less-likely theory is that it represents some southern New England Algonquian language mangling of English. In Eng. a term of contempt (1750s) before its use as a general term for "native of New England" (1765); during the American Revolution it became a disparaging British word for all American native or inhabitants. Shortened form Yank in reference to "an American" first recorded 1778."

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