In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

> 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."


What about Central America?

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA