Tony Cooper wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:42:03 +0000, Matthew Huntbach <mmh@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote: In a sporting context, of course, since Americans don't play the sports which are dominant here, there isn't that much need to refer to them. If the USA soccer team were a major competitor in the world cup, there might be a lot more usage of "yank", for example, but it isn't