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As much as it galls me, got to hand to the Yanks on this one...
George Beauchamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George was not a Yank.
It's a common error made by us Brits to call all Americans Yanks.
My wife, who is from the south, was horrified to be called a Yank when she moved here to the UK.
That Mason-Dixon line is a divide.