ORIGIN OF NAMES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 6

ORIGIN OF NAMES.

PAR LEV SCO AR AND YANK ML. One really has lo travel away from home to learn just the simplest things, says Lady Kelly. An Adelaide lady was so far away as Bosnia, when she' met Sir Willoughby Dickenson, who is secretary to die League of Nations ('onference at Geneva, and his wife and (laughter, and among other items of conversation, Lady Dickenson told her how barley sugar got its name. 'Lite French and Scotch, as we all know, vert' very intimate in earlier days. The French had the sweet first. and called if Druiller Sucre (burnt sugar), die. Scotch liked this sweet, and made it, hut in Scotland they could not pronounce “bruiUer” properly, so if gradually got corrupted to “barley. ’’ The art iif making if died mil in France, and they go! dm recipe again from Scotland as barley sugar. There was a young American in dm party, and Ihe barley sugar stops reminded him of how diet got called “Yankee.’’ The American Indians and Drench were most together in tie' early days, and the Drench used lo speak lo them of the Daiglish settlers as L’Anglals. 'I hey also could not pronounce die word pro nerly, and it got corrupted lo Yankee—so 1 hit I- is how Yankee originated.