Talk:Yankee Doodle

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Yankee Doodle article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.

Add new text under old text.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Start a new topic

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives (index): 1: 3 months

Connecticut Top‑importance

	Connecticut portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Connecticut, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Connecticut on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ConnecticutWikipedia:WikiProject ConnecticutTemplate:WikiProject ConnecticutConnecticut
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Songs

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SongsWikipedia:WikiProject SongsTemplate:WikiProject Songssong

Children's literature Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Children's literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Children's literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Children's literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Children's literatureTemplate:WikiProject Children's literaturechildren and young adult literature

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks you can do:

Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.

Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles.
Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}}
Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project.
Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature
Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject.
References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs.
Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature
Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

edit

Diss track?

I read that this song is an insult to Americans. Would that make this a diss track? Cganuelas (talk) 21:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"All the lassies are so smart / and sweet as sugar candy"

This was the second half of the chorus as I learned it in school. Any info on this version? Romomusicfan (talk) 09:37, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Geographical Matter

"...well known across western Europe, including England, France, Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain."

Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't believe Hungary is located in western Europe.

Also, the sentence references as a source another Wikipedia article. 24.62.224.22 (talk) 04:06, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"A-hunting we will go, a-hunting we will go, heigh-o, the derry-o, a-hunting we will go" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect A-hunting we will go, a-hunting we will go, heigh-o, the derry-o, a-hunting we will go has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 27 § A-hunting we will go, a-hunting we will go, heigh-o, the derry-o, a-hunting we will go until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 08:17, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yankel Duvid?

Since all the learned explanations are all just guesses, I'll add my own. To my ear its simply Yanki - a common Yiddish name for Jacob, since they could not pronounce the 3Ayin glottal letter in Ya3akobh, they called him Yankov. Then for short Yanki, like short for Moshe (Moses, Moiz) which because they could not pronounce the ou (rhymes with owe you) had it as oy, hence Moysheh, and then for short Moishee, for Joseph - Yosef turned to Yossi (pronounced Yossee). A prominent Israeli comedian from the Haredi ultra-orthodox Yiddish speaking community who frequents the national TV shows bears this name.

And Dudel is simply Duvidel, like modern Israeli Dudi and Dudu for David. The Galician u (oo) pronunciation of the Komotz vowel after the D of David, (in Original Hebrew: Daw-wid, then Dovvid with the loss of the w). The el suffix was for small kids. Moishel or Moishelleh for a kid named Moish (full name of course Moshe), Yosselle for Yosef, Hershelleh or Hirschel for Tzvi Hirsch. Mendel or Mendi for Menachem. Khatzkel for Yehezke'el or Khezki, etc. Yingelle meaning small kid.

Yanki Dudel is simply a Hussid.

The problem is that there's no way I can weave this theory into the article because that would be original research.

Perhaps just say that it sounds like a conventional Yiddish name?

In any case, if you can refute this I'll be glad to hear.

פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 13:25, 17 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Adding more intriguing info:

1. Nun by Schneir Levin. - How the velar nasal (/ŋ/) replaced the Ayin. (Waiting to get access to that article)

2. Moses Cohen Henriques - (born c. 1595) was a Dutch pirate of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. Operating in as a pirate of the Caribbean.

פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 17:25, 17 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]