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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
Message-ID: <70@tove.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 16:25:14 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.70
Posted: Sat Dec 15 16:25:14 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:24:29 EST
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Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <1556@sdcrdcf.UUCP> alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) writes:
>>  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.

When I was in England, it was always "the states" -- never "America"
or "the US".  Sometimes, I hear "the states" at home, but mostly
from people who have gone overseas (I find myself using the term
sometimes).  Usually, I hear "the US" -- especially on the news.
I tend to think of "America" as what immigrants say -- my roommate
uses it and my dad does, too, at least when he is talking about
when he moved to this country from England.
-- 
				-Liz Allen

Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
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