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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 11:47:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 18 11:47:18 1984
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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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