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From: tom@uwai.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
Message-ID: <174@uwai.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 00:12:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 00:12:46 1984
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> 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.  



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Tom Christiansen
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Systems Lab 
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