Yankee Doodle Dandy

Nearly at the end of Round 8!!!

ABC Wednesday is a word meme with participants from around the world. This fabulous meme was created and hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt who hails from Great Britain. Over time, others have joined in to help host this wonderful and informative meme. We are now in our EIGHTH round! Some of the participants have been with this from the very first round; others have joined in along the way. Each week we are taken across the globe to see the varied and exciting contributions people have taken the time to discover and capture. We start with the letter, "A" and each week we post something in regards to the next letter of the alphabet. This week's letter is, "Y".

YANKEE

 Pop quiz-don't cheat!!! Who wrote the tune, "Yankee Doodle Dandy"?

Give up?  George M. Cohan.  One our great, all American songs! And, a pleasantly catchy tune, too (if I don't mind saying so myself).  His life and music was depicted in the Hollywood film, "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

Yankee:
"The meaning of Yankee has varied over time. In the 18th century, it referred to residents of New England descended from the original English settlers of the region. Mark Twain, in the following century, used the word in this sense in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, published in 1889. As early as the 1770s, British people applied the term to any person from what became the United States. In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States (though not to recent immigrants from Europe; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, "The enterprising people are mostly strangers; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called").^[2]
Outside the United States, Yankee is slang for anyone from the United States. The truncated form Yank is especially popular among Britons, and may sometimes be considered offensive or disapproving.^{[3] 
(quoted from Wikiedia)}

YEOMANRY

 An AP photo of Prince Edward

 " Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Territorial Army, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments. Today, Yeomanry units may serve in a variety of different military roles." (from Wikipedia).

This photo was taken at at a Service of Remembrance for the Iraq War and here, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.



YCLEPT  (ee clept):

–verb

a past participle of clepe.

• While clepe is obsolete, yclept is still occasionally used for humorous or archaic effect; as in the set phrase aptly yclept, which is an idiomatic expression.
• A holdover from Middle English, yclept is one of the few English words where 'y' figures as a vowel at the beginning of a word. Others include yttrium and yngling.

I've read this definition over and over again and I STILL can't figure out what it means!! If any one of you out there in blogsophere 'gets it', leave a comment here explaining how to use this word (even if it is archaic) in a sentence, please!!!