They live in the Americas. Thus…
And it’s not really in your name, which is the United States of that particular
region. It’s an addendum or afterthought.
What if Canada renamed itself as the United Provinces of North America, which
it could.
Andrew Fildes, United States of Australia (Christmas, bored, feeling ill,
looking for a fight)
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> On 25 Dec 2015, at 4:55 pm, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Not so. Although there are other countries on the American continents the
> United States of America is the only country with America in its name.
> Sorry, I've heard that geographical arrogance bit too many times.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/25/2015 12:22 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> If Americans deviate from proper English, they only have themselves
>> to blame for any confusion. Even calling themselves Americans is a
>> kind of geographical arrogance.
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