Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Origin of the Word “Yankees.” [ARTICLE]

Origin of the Word “Yankees.”

The word Yankees, by which the natives of Now England are designated, had its origin in a mispronunciation, Yengees being the neaiest the Indian tongue could come to enunciating the word English.

At the beginning of this year (says the Revue Scientifiqae) there were 1,168 submarine cables in existence, of which 880 belonged to different dominions, and 288 to private oompanies. The former possessed a length of 16,652 miles, and the latter had a length of 144,743 miles, thus the total length was 161,305 miles.