On 2021-05-02 12:31 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-05-02 1:14 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 May 2021 09:17:46 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> No. We are in North America. Canadians and Mexicans do not think of
>>> themselves as American.
>>
>> Yeah. But for a Mexican, a 'Nordamericano" means someone from Canada or
>> the USA. (This despite that Mexico is N of the United States.)
>>
>> It was even more confusing before they changed the name of the country to
>> 'Mexico'. It was (in Spanish): 'The United States of Mexico'.
>>
>
> Was? I believe it still is.

ISTR that there was also a "United States of Brazil" for a while.