On May 24, 2016 12:45 PM, "Seeker" <seeker5...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > On 5/23/2016 12:50 PM, Nicolas George wrote: >> >> Le quintidi 5 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : >>>> >>>> American? There are two continents. Do you mean the U.S.A? - the land of >>>> the rooster and other euphemistic terms? >>> >>> What becomes of Canada and Mexico in that scenario?? >> >> A friend of mine suggested "United States of Puritania" for the demonymless >> country between Canada and Mexico. >> > Maybe I'm just not creative enough. > > If it was not a commonly accepted reference to the United States of America, there would > be no "America". > > You would have 'American continents' plural. You would have 'The Americas' plural. > > I can't think of a usage that makes sense to collectively refer to people from two > separate continents and a region of land that connects them as 'American'. > > What am I missing?! ;) > > Later, Seeker >
In Mexico and South America are called gringos no matter if they're US Citizens, Canadians or Europeans. Now I'm gone.
