09-29-2009, 01:36 PM
Quote:You quote Wikipedia as a reliable source, which is always a bad idea. I had a professor back in university who would tear any essay apart when it cited wikipedia as a source. :lol: He's right though, Wikipedia isn't reliable.At least Wikipedia tries, and when additions are found that lack what ARE considered reliable citations they are challenged and often removed.
In the case of the part of the Wikipedia article that Pete mentioned, it does have citation, being the Oxford English Dictionary ("yankee, n and a" Oxford English Dictionary http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50288716 ). Is that a good enough source?
Wikipedia is not itself a reliable source, but rather a source for -um- sources.
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