Don't know if it still happens, but when I lived in Mexico many years ago
and made the mistake of calling natives of the USA Americans, the Mexican I
was talking with just might look at me and ask Y quien estamos? And what
are we? (My Spanish is even worse today then it was then, but you get the
idea.)

The proper term for USA citizens, at least there, at that time, was Norte
Americanos.

Barry

"H. W. Hans Kuntze" > wrote in message
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graham wrote:

>"webpecker" > wrote in message
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>>On 19 Oct 2003 15:27:35 -0700, (drei) wrote:
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>>However the best flour one can get in Italy for making pizza is the
>>Manitoba flour (aka American flour)!
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>Hate to point this out but Manitoba is in Canada.
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Hi Graham.

Does that not qualify as being in "America"?

After all, every stretch of land from Alaska to Chile would be in America,
even the USofA.

How did you get to exclude Canada from the american continent?

That would make OHS very happy, one less porous border to watch.

--
Sincerly,

C=¦-)§ H. W. Hans Kuntze, CMC, S.g.K. (_o_)
http://www.cmcchef.com ,
"Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it Happened"
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