Word: yankeeism
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Waterloo 130 years ago (as Victor Hugo tells it), the strange Yankeeism had been brilliantly and broadly translated by General Pierre Jacques Etienne de Cambronne, commanding the last square of Napoleon's Old Guard. To a British demand for surrender the General shouted: "Merde!"-now proudly (but euphemistically) cited by fastidious Frenchmen as le mot de Cambronne-"Cambronne's [four-letter] word...
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