Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America Message-ID: <218@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 11:47:18 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.218 Posted: Tue Dec 18 11:47:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 12:19:18 EST References: <598@asgb.UUCP> <1556@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 23 Summary: Places where "America" != "USA" > > BTW, isn't the use of 'America' for the United States of A. a > >regionalism (big region, to be sure). > > > >Bob Devine Burroughs-ASG > > Using 'America' for the USA probably isn't universal, but it's popular > throughout Western and Eastern Europe. > > sdcrdcf!alan From personal experience, `America' is a meaningless term here in Canada; one ALWAYS says `US' or `USA' or `The States' if that is meant, or `North America' or `the Americas' as appropriate. Paul Theroux writes in The Old Patagonian Express that when he was conversing with an inhabitant of a South American country, he eventually realized that to THAT person `America' meant SOUTH America...which makes just as much sense, after all. I think that when some Europeans say "America" they may mean either the USA or North America, and they don't really care to make any distinction anyway (sigh). Mark Brader, Toronto, Canada, North America