Miss Dottie
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LizzieMaine said:We don't use it much here, actually, at least not in conversation with each other -- perhaps due to the unfortunate baseball connotations. You find it most often in the names of cutesy shops that cater to the tourist trade: Ye Olde Yankee Gifte Shoppe, The Old Yankee Trader, Salty Yankee Seadog's B&B. Basically, we think of the whole Yankee thing as a way of exploiting the New England stereotype for fun and profit.
We call ourselves "Mainahs." And if you can't pronounce it right, you ain't one.
Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe. Hilarious!
I used to work at a living historical museum and I think that was the name of the gift shop to boot!