Why no "New English"?

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Like if somebody's from New England, how come they're never called a New English? Is "New Mexican" used, btw?

― andy --, Monday, 17 April 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

cuz they're called yankees

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

CUZ PEPPERIDGE FAHHHM REMEMBAHS!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

haha i used to drive a pepperidge farm breadtruck. fucking ROLLING in some cinnamon raisin bread.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

because they're called "New Englanders"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

i just read that bill bryson 'made in america' book. when it dorks out totally on language it's pretty fun but the 'ok so then america got cars and these words came up and then it got planes and we got these words' parts felt hyperperfunctory.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

i am both a new mexican and a new englander; chew on that, suckas.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

i don't want to change the world, i'm not lookin' for a new english

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Matt you twot I was racing to make the same post.

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

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