Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwai.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwai!tom From: tom@uwai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America Message-ID: <174@uwai.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 00:12:46 EST Article-I.D.: uwai.174 Posted: Mon Dec 24 00:12:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 02:45:55 EST References: <598@asgb.UUCP> <4799@fortune.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 28 > In article <598@asgb.UUCP> devine@asgb.UUCP (Bob Devine) writes: > > > > > > BTW, isn't the use of 'America' for the United States of A. a > >regionalism (big region, to be sure). > > > Yeah - just about the whole world. > Au contrair! I can give two counter-examples: 1] In Spain, while the *correct* way to refer to US citizens is 'estadounidenses', the more common way is 'norteamericanos'; they do *not* use 'americano' which is applied to residents of both continents. 'usano' is occasionally heard in the streets. 2] South Americans, in particular Chileans and Argentines, can grow quite irate to hear a USer call himself an 'American'; they consider themselves 'americanos' as much as we do. -- Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin Computer Science Systems Lab ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom tom@wisc-ai.arpa