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?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
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The history of the United States says it all. Why invent something that is not? America is the name of the continent in which the United States formed its union as a nation and they didn't use a name only The United States and then added "Of America". It was never that a nation existed as America and then was divided into states hence the United States.
America in the name of a Continent. Any other use is still a reference to the continent. Otherwise it is wrongly used.
I think that in the case of the name of the country there is no controversy, "America" is just the informal abbreviation of the real name of the country "United States of America", the official abbreviation is "United States"
The case of the name of nationality (demonyn) is really questionable, because the Encyclopedia Britannica itself recognizes that "American" will never lose its original continental meaning, but that in its use, they -the English-speaking countries- prioritize that it be used only for the nationality of the United States. And that for the continental what is used is "South American" or "North American" as appropriate.
like Sebastian said: any other use of the name "America" is still to name the continent! The name of the nation is "United States" and the nation is in America or "Of America". It is not that America has all these united states and so the name is America. Nope. It is a group of sovereign States who got together to form a union which they called "the United States" which these United States are in the continent of America.
I did not say that of course that although the full name of the country includes the name of the continent, "The United States of America", undoubtedly its central part is "United States", as confirmed by the text of its constitution, that although in its beginning the full name appears, in the rest it speaks of "the people of the United States"
not the informal, but the name of the continent! So they are calling themselves with a continental name.
In English:
From US America = American
From America/Americas = Americaner
In Spanish:
From US America = ameriquense
From America/Americas = americano
Wtf is this.
You have said it WRONG Alberto!
No one from Latin America would be as dumb as you.
In English: Someone or Something …
… From U.S. America = U.S. American (NOT American)
… From America/Americas = American (NOT Americaner)
In Spanish: Someone or Something …
… From US America = E.U. Americano (NOT Ameriquense)
… From America/Americas = Americano
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Happy Columbus Day! 1942 when the new world was discovered!
typo..lol jajajaja its 1492
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What's the distance between Central America an the United States?
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