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Re: Limeys

To: bryan@roborough.gpsemi.com, tjhiggin@ingr.com
Subject: Re: Limeys
From: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 13:06:43 -0500
> > PS. Why do some Americans call British people Limeys?
> 
> The story (as I remember it from my school days) is that British 
> sailors in the 1800s carried barrels of limes with them on their long 
> voyages to prevent scurvy.  So British sailors became "limeys".  In 
> the grand American tradition of generalization, this was extended to 
> include any British person.
> -- 
> T.J. Higgins     | tjhiggin@ingr.com         | (205) 730-7922
> Intergraph Corp. | Mapping Sciences Division | Huntsville, AL, USA
>

I was told it was from when the yanks flew back and forth over he 
white cliffs of Dover.

Marcus


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