Did Yankee Doodle name the feather, hat, town, or his pony Macaroni?
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Saw this in crazythoughts.com, have been wondering ever since. If you, like me, have no idea, you should just vote for what you think is the best answer. Naming his pony Macaroni seems to be the most amusing to me.
The hat became macaroni (just another definition for fashionable, at the time) after he stuck the feather in it. Technically, I guess it could be the combination of the feather and the hat.
the way it is worded, i would agree with feather, but knowing the definition of macaroni to be related to a style of dress, i have to vote for the hat.
a couple of macaroni definitions:
a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"
a man who is devoted to or vain about his appearance or dress, dandy
Voted for
Feather
at 3:47pm on February 19th, 2008
I like Jeremy's idea....however, if you take the line literally, 'it' would have to be the feather:
"Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni."
"In his hat" is actually just a prepositional phrase describing where he stuck the feather, while the object of the sentence (to which "it" must refer to) is "a feather."
Some English grammar rules are a bit more complicated than others.
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