Nancy Young said:
> Mike........... wrote:
>> Following up to Andy
>>
>>> We're Americans. USAians is a derogatory thing to say, imho!
>>
>> Its a confused term, I think many europeans see "american" as
>> disrespectful of south americans, but i never heard a south american
>> say that and as USian sounds daft I dont see a practical change
>> coming.
>
> Well, South Americans are just that, just as we are North Americans.
> America is not a continent.
>
> But our country is called America.
>

I thought it was called the United States of America. Just as here we live
in assorted parts of a country called either Great Britain or the United
Kingdom, depending which bits you are including at the time.

Despite many years online I have only recently seen this USAian thing; it
looks clumsy to me.

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kat
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