Rio Olympics 2016

At the closing ceremony, as the torch was being passed from Brazil to Japan, did you notice the floor of the venue covered with the word(s) "Thank You" in many languages?  Brazil's thank you was at the center, and Japan's was right under Brazil's.  It looked like this:

                                                               OBRIGADO
                                                               ORIGATO

Did you catch the similarity?  When the Portuguese explorers arrived on the shores of Japan, and were saying "obrigado" for "thank you," the Japanese adopted that as "origato."

Yankee Doodle

Why do Europeans call Americans Yankees, and why do New Yorkers get called Yankees?  (There are no Yankees in the south or west, are there?  .....unless they have been transplanted....)

Before the English established New York, it was Niew-Amsterdam, capital of the Dutch New Netherland Colony on the southern tip of Manhattan island.  There were more than just a few Jancke families settled there. Considering that the J is pronounced like a Y in Dutch, you've got quite a few Yancke's living in Niew-Amsterdam.

Wow, that's a long time for a regional nick-name to endure.