kat wrote:
> 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.

Right, shortened to America. America is not short for "all the countries
in the two contents of South and North America."

Just as Mexico is called what it is, people don't go around
calling their people UMSians, right? But it is the United Mexican
States, no?

> 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.

I don't like it, and I don't answer to it. Heh.

nancy