Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Morgan are your changing locations to upvote fot yourself, because it is very suspicious that every comment that you make gets that many upvotes and suddenly in less that 72 every other comment got too many dowvotes. Or did you invite your friends to downvote, because I failed to see their comments.
Thanks people for singning the petition from change.org.
We should help reduce misinformation from internet as we know people always take from granted the first thing that google shows up as facts.
Last time I checked the petition had 3 and then 7, but now it has 140+!
"The United States of America" >> "United States" o "U.S. America" >> "U.S. Americans"
That's alright, as well as United Statians.
Both of those are alright, as well as United Statesian. (That includes ‘es’ between the letters of ‘t’ and ‘i’ in ‘Statian’)!
Although, “U.S. American” is my most favorite!!! :D
Yo creo que los estadounidenses fueron muy soberbios cuando comenzaron abreviar su nombre ("The United States of America") como America cuando perfectamente podrían haberlo hecho como "U.S. America" y su nacionalidad podría decirse U.S. Americans!
Hey, well done Andy!
https://www.change.org/americacontinent
It has surpassed the expectations from Morgan and earlier than what I expected ;)
United States of Washington
United States of North America
United States of Earth
Whatever... United States
America
Yes, US is in America
In Northern America
https://www.google.com/search?q=American+Football+Cup
Mrs. Anonymous, are you the same person who used to post here years ago? How are you? I hope you are well.
For every one person around the world who studies Spanish as a foreign language, there are 100 people who study English as a foreign language. This is great news! Many of these learners are probably already familiar with using America and American in their own language to refer to the US and its citizens. We all know that it is extremely common for people all over the world, who speak many different languages, to use the words this way. Now this proper usage will be reinforced when they learn English.
https://wapo.st/3j8rVOy
"Probably". Doing it does not mean it is correct. United Statians have years manipulating media.
Decades!
I will follow the recommendation put forth by Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan patriot, and I'll use the term "americano" when referring to the people of the States.
“Cada día es más frecuente, más natural que, hablando en español, nos refiramos a los americanos con el mismo sentido que a esta voz se da en los Estados Unidos.”
“Este uso no sólo está muy extendido entre hispanohablantes (ya no se diga en el inglés, lengua en la que es gentilicio exclusivo), sino que además su empleo viene dándose de muchos años atrás. Nunca imaginé sin embargo que hubiera pruebas de que esto ocurrió por primera vez, en lengua española, en el siglo XVIII. ...[E]n 1783, el patriota venezolano Francisco de Miranda emplea americano con el sentido de 'perteneciente o relativo a los Estados Unidos de América, o natural de ellos'.”
https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/obra/suma/r1/buscar.asp?word2=americano
A distinguished and well educated patriot :)