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:O Real? Can’t tell…
I suspect it might be fake. Why would someone who isn’t smart enough to check the spelling on “Yankees” put the trademark symbol after it? I could be wrong, but it makes me suspicious.
Hmmm…..i see the point in your theory here…
Oh, I’m not so sure about that. There’s lots of vendors around Yankee Stadium who sell non-official Yankees gear. These days pretty much anyone can make stuff like that for cheap. And knowing that many people in that area of the Bronx really DO pronounce it “Jankees”, it is very likely real.
The above statement is true. Even some of the Yankees players pronounce it the New Jork Jankees. Thats how its done.
jour right! jou know i never would’ve thot of that!
Most likely real. The ‘Y’ as used in Yankees is a consonant J, this is phonetically correct.
In Spanish-speaking countries and some other European languages, but not in all. However, yes, J usually has the “y” sound.
Oops — I take that back about Spanish-speaking countries. Apparently, in most countries which uses Spanish, the “ll” is the “y” sound, and “j” is “h”. However, I have met a few Mexican ex-pats that pronounced “j” as “y”, so my information might be skewed by a dialect issue.
In argentina they pronounce ‘ll’ as a soft ‘j’ sound. I’ve actually heard an argentine person say the word ‘yankee’ when referring to north americans, and it sounds a lot like jonk-key. I wonder if it is connected… But I’m not sure why someone would phonetically spell (based on english) a mispronunciation of a word.
yes, but ‘Jankees’ is not written phonemically on that shirt. the Y might be prenounced as ‘J’ but I think phonemic it should be /’jæŋki:s/
Linguistics FTW!
might be some German reiteration, J makes a Y sound in German
Jinkies!
Those darn Jankies!
Joo know? I donna like Jankees. New Jork hasa da Mets anna thatza alls they need.
Excuse yourself, Donna LOVES her Yankees whatever way you spell
it and her Mets. Stay true to the orange and electric blue and love your champions through and through.
ROFL! Jankees s*ck!!!
Wouldn’t that be the New Jork Jankees?
Only if you are a Djork!
Heeeeeyy…didn’t John Cena once mispronounce ‘Yankees’ as Jankees?
Yumping Yiminee!
Don’t you mean, “Llumping lliminee!”?
You DID NOT just do that.
to be honest, that is the correct way it was spelled.
Yankees comes from ‘Jan Kees’. When the dutch lived in New Amsterdam, many of the men were called ‘Jan’ or ‘Kees’, so that is where the name Yankees came from
I love info like that — useless mostly, but great when the heavy silence hits at a party. Thanxyu!
At first JanKees was a nickname given by the English to the dutch colonists (apperently a lot of them were named ja-kees or jan).
As a Boston Red Sox fan, I see no misspelling in this pic.
Jankees, jankees? We don”t need no steenking jankees.
‘sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
this made me laugh SO hard b/c i had a Cuban boss once, and he was in looove with the yankees. but with his accent and cuban pronunciations, he always called them the “jankees”
awww, memories ^_^
Well, at least it wasn’t spelled with a “W”……………..
don’t forget the “r”
It’s funny because the word Yankees is actually misspelled, because it comes from the dutch names Jan en Kees like mentioned above.
it must’ve been a red sox fan who made it
Actually, ‘Jan Kees” in colonial times was the nickname for the stereotypical/architypical Dutch New Yorker; Yankee is a corruption thereof.
Wonder if Derek Yeter plays for them…
I want one of those.
waw yer all stupid!!! Its not a fail.
Yankees comes from the most common dutch name Jan Kees, from the time the dutchies ruled the east coast.
It’s from Scooby-doo land.
Good thing the Yankees played back in Dutch colonial times when that was still relevant.
I don’t think this is a play on anything Dutch Colonial and I doubt it’s even an accident. I think it’s a play by a local vendor on the Bronx Puerto Rican pronunciation of “Yankees.” It also comes up in other Latino/a dialects. If you haven’t heard it b4, you probably haven’t been to the Bronx.
YANKEES SUCK!!!
i wanna buy that and wear it in manhattan.
“Yankees comes from the most common dutch name Jan Kees, from the time the dutchies ruled the east coast.”
Close but not quite, “Jan Kees” was actually a slur against Dutch colonists used by English colonists… it means “Jan Cheese” (because Dutch people like cheese and are often named Jan).
Actually, “Cheese” is “Kaas” in dutch, and “Kees” is actually a very old dutch name, though it is still used by conservative dutch people. Take from someone who lives in Amsterdam himself.
Because “New York Wankees” would sound silly.
(^_^)
METS!!!
Next year.
WOOOW. am i the only one that skims through all the comments? there’s like 9 comments about Dutch pronunciation on here. Hey, I think we get it! Thanks, though!
whatever. just take it as a joke, because MOST of America does not say this. THEREIN LIES THE JOKE…thank you
Jo, Me and Tonj are headin’ up to New Jork this weekend. Jou wanna come with too?
Actually it’s because of a dutchman named Jan Kees. And it is pronounced Jankees.
Because the Dutch got here first not the British. We are an extension of
Amsterdam it’s self.
Joe Giradi helps save the life of a woman on his way home from celebrating last night’s victory.
Janking the chains that bind them.
Actually, this is the way it’s supposed to be written. It goes back to the days when Holland still owned New York ( it was called New Amsterdam back then). And it was originally called Jan Kees, which is a dutch name. Later it got changed because when we switched New York for Suriname, the language changed too. But english people couldn’t pronouce it properly.. so they changed it to Yankees