Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!liz 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 References: <598@asgb.UUCP> <1556@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 25 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 Usenet: ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz Arpanet: liz@tove (or liz@maryland) "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all" -- 1 John 1:5