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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:41:37 -0500, KristleBawl wrote:
> willshak once said:
>> Don Schmidt wrote the following:
>>> When using the word, Americans, it would include all of the countries
>>> in North and South America. Therefore it would be correct to include
>>> Spanish and Portuguese.
>>
>> But we are the only country in North, Central, and South America that
>> has 'America' as part of its name. "The United States of America" is the
>> official name.
>> I don't know if we were responsible for shortening the name to just
>> America, but I suspect that it was everybody else.
>
> That's true. Americans are citizens of the USA, not to be confused with
> other North Americans, South Americans, Latin Americans, or Central
> Americans. Native Americans, however, are also Americans, as are all
> hyphenated-Americans, but not dashed. :-)
Cute :-)
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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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