>>17672574>That’s not a Yank. Yankees are New England English or Mormons. Melungeons are from Lowland Scotland.I know that Yankees are different from Rednecks, and that pisses off the latter even more to be called Yanks, the name of their conquerors in the Civil War.
But since you Americans call all Italians "wops" no matter from which region they are, and wops is an Anglicization of Neapolitan "guappo": and there is a very big difference between Northern, Central and Southern "Italians" this Venetian "wop" will keep calling you mutts "Yanks"!
Have a blessed day, Sir!
>EtymologyThe Merriam-Webster dictionary states wop's first known use was in the United States in 1908, and that it originates from the Southern Italian dialectal term guappo, roughly meaning "dandy", or "swaggerer", derived from the Spanish term guapo, meaning "good-looking", "dandy", from Latin vappa for "sour wine", also "worthless fellow".[2][3][4]
>In Neapolitan and other Southern Italo-Romance varieties, guappo is pronounced roughly as wahp-po.[5][6] 