Janke, Yankee, and How Early America Was a Nation of Pirates
Date : 2008 05 12 Category : Web News
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Matt Mason, author of "The Pirates Dilemma," asserts "America only industrialized as rapidly as it did by counterfeiting European inventions, ignoring global patents and stealing intellectual property wholesale."
I watched an interesting lecture yesterday afternoon online given by Matt Mason, author of "The Pirates Dilemma." It's worth noting because one of his assertions in it concerns the etymology of the word "Yankee," which describes the very heart and soul of the United States. From the storied "Yankee Doodle Dandy," a patriotic song that has long been synonymous with the US, to the famed New York baseball team, it's a word with much history and usage yet surprisingly misunderstood.
Why? Because as Mason notes, the ".