RE: Limey

[ping0160 <Bernard.Christian-Woodruff@ping.be>]

For once in my career as a reader of the list I can add my penny's worth 
to this!!
Living in Belgium means I have contact with people from the Netherlands 
who are affectionatley referred to as "cheese heads" by their friendly 
Belgian neighbours - they do make some excellent stuff!!
Back in the early days of New York, there were a lot of Dutch settlers 
there, so much so that I believe that New York was very nearly New 
Amsterdam.....
To cut a long story short, the Dutch referred to their New World 
neighbours as "Young Cheeses" - which in dutch is pronounced 
(phonetically) "yan kees". So there you have it.

Bern.