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Exactly that. I've just added you again, you're new 2020 sticker will be with you soon.

Who are you again? Your name isn't the right colour

What would you like? Wexford's colour? Yellow bellies?

Again..... joking. This language barrier can be a curse . We may come up with a code for what’s serious and what’s not

Huh. I think we will need a translator so, Norman

There is a story about the Wexford hurling team that was raised by Sir Caesar Colclough to play a match against a team from Cornwall, in the late 16th century. This has a literal element, in that the Wexford players played with yellow cloth tied around their waist to distinguish them from Cornwall, and this caused them to be nicknamed The Yellowbellies. Wexford do still play in yellow and the name has stuck, although it isn't clear when the nickname was first used. This story, in as much as it can be verified at all at this late date, has no connotations of cowardice. The team might just as likely been called the bluebellies or greenbellies if different material had been available on the day. In fact, none of the early English/Irish uses of the name suggest cowardice. For that sense we have to travel to the USA.

The screenplay of a B-feature western wasn't complete without a selection from the list of stock cowboy lingo. You were as likely to find a coward that wasn't called a yellow-belly as you were to see the Lone Ranger without his mask.

The first use of the term that I can find from the USA, and one that suggests the derogatory, cowardly meaning, comes from an account of a military skirmish in Texas, reported in The Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1842:


It also has origins in England.

In fact, “apparently “ after an emphatic victory, the king and queen of britain were heard to cheer, up the yellow bellies.

Amazing how we are so intertwined and how what some may think as derogatory, is held proudly elsewhere.
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Thank you for a very strange present. I must investigate further.