"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"?

No! North America. These days "America" is the name used by most of the
world to mean the US. Anything "American" as in "American flour" is taken
to be from the US.

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

No. The usual term here would be "The Americas"

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

It is part of the North American Continent. South America is another
continent.

Yours pedantically
Graham