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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang
Subject: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <1033@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 00:06:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 00:06:27 1985
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Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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Summary: 

In article <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
>there is no word in the English language for inhabitant of the United States
>other than American.  I can understand how Latin Americans and Canadians
>might not like this, but it is a fact.  I'll be damned if I'm going to
>call myself a Unitedstatesian (ugh!).  It is unfortunate that the same
>word, American, has more than one meaning, but it takes someone like jeff m.
>to convert this into a sign of US hegemony over the West.  Spare us.

Anyone from Latin America will tell you an inhabitant of the US is a yankee.
And you better believe, that's an insult!
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					Scott Anderson
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