New vernacular every week

[MaxPC]

Learned a new word this week:
Scaussie or Scozzie pronounced Scaw See.

It refers to a Scot who now lives Down Under (Australia).

[Josh]

Learned a new word this week:
Scaussie or Scozzie pronounced Scaw See.

It refers to a Scot who now lives Down Under (Australia).

As a Scot who used to live down under, this is a new one for me.

[MaxPC]

Learned a new word this week:
Scaussie or Scozzie pronounced Scaw See.

It refers to a Scot who now lives Down Under (Australia).

As a Scot who used to live down under, this is a new one for me.

Likewise. I suppose that is why it is called ....
new.

When I hear new nomenclature, I marvel about the dynamic of language evolution; and how mass communication has impacted languages.

[Soloist]

From the wife.

Would that mean that an American that now lives down under would be an Americaussi? Pronounce it like kamikaze. We have one of those in our family.

Oh dear. The other option would be an Americ-alien.

[MaxPC]

From the wife.

Would that mean that an American that now lives down under would be an Americaussi? Pronounce it like kamikaze. We have one of those in our family.

Oh dear. The other option would be an Americ-alien.

Perhaps Aussie-yank?
AusSamie?
Am-Aussie?
The prospects are quite promising.

Would a Canadian be CanAussie? Aussie-Can? Aussadien?

[Szdfan]

Yank seems pretty universal.

In Germany, Americans are called "Amis."

[Neto]

In Brazil, Americans are sometimes referred to as "Estadounidenses". Also, "Norteamericans". They add the 'North" to it because, as they say, they are also from 'America', and in that sense resent that the North Americans claim the title of "Americanos". But Canadians are called "Canadenses".

(Once an 'American' called some unknown Brazilians who came onto the mission center "estranjeiros" instead of "estranhos", which elicited quite a response.... - 'foreigners' instead of 'strangers')

[Ken]

Yank seems pretty universal.

In Germany, Americans are called "Amis."

In Central and South America I never once heard "Yank"

We are gringos. Even my upper class Chilean father-in-law refers to me as "the gringo" at times. I told him "we'll stop calling ourselves "Americans" when they stop calling us "Gringos"

In formal speak they might say "estadounidense" or maybe "norteamericano" like Neto says in Brazil. But I've never hear "Yank." That sounds more like what the Brits called their American allies during WW2.

On the other hand when we live in Texas I heard all about "Yankees"

[Robert]

On the other hand when we live in Texas I heard all about "Yankees"

And usually predicated with a word that starts with D.

When I was in Columbia, I found out real fast not to say I was from the US (Estados Unidos). I would say I was from Texas and then everyone was very friendly.

I heard Gringo there too. They also did not like we called ourselves Americans. I stopped doing that after visiting there when I was 18. I agree with them.

[MaxPC]

Kiwis: now there is another combination to explore. New Zealanders refer to themselves as such.

We have an in-law who is Native American. Her tribe refers to themselves as Indians as in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Yet the western Cherokee prefer to not use Indians; instead they call themselves Cherokee Nation and Cherokee People. Among themselves they use another name in their native tongue.

Limey has fallen into disuse by and large. Now we hear (and use) Brit.