CHAT: Gay Normand and Albion (was: RE: CHAT: the gay Canadian(was: "have a nice day")

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I don't think we have such a name for France. France is the country of the
> Francs, even Gaulle comes from the names of the people that lived there at
> those times. Too bad...
And we over here have the exact opposite - we have no name for ourselves
that isn't derived from the place, i.e., American from America.  For
that matter, we have no name for ourselves as distinct from other North
or South Americans, and a name that is not distinct - we're not all of
the American continents, and we're not the only country with United
States in the name, Mexico is _Estados Unidos Mexicanos_ after all.

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