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ebennet68

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In my WIP, one of the characters is British and calls another character, an American, a "yank." Do I capitalize yank or not? A trivial thing but it's bugging me, lol.
 

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I would capitalize it, unless of course the Brit is referring to one of the American's proclivites.
 

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Lol, yeah, capital:

he gave it a Yank (real bad UK writing, but it still sez: he gave it an american)
he gave it a yank (he gave it a pull)
 
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Yep. If you're gonna capitalize Brit, you gotta capitalize Yank.

Do they still call us that?
 

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It's wartime slang, kept going by the war movies in the fifties and sixties, but I don't think it's used as much as it was.

Yep. If you're gonna capitalize Brit, you gotta capitalize Yank.

Do they still call us that?