Re: Language naming terminology
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 21, 1998, 17:38 |
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Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinz=F3n wrote:
> the Northamerican Union, who had no name of their own, took the name
> of the continent: The United States of America, with the adjective Amer=
ican
> _stoled_ from all we other Americans.
Actually, the term American for the English colonists predates the
Revolutionary War, and there was some debate over what to call the new
nation, since United States of America, which was by far the most
popular choice, had the problem of adjective - Unitedstatsian (ugly) or
American (inaccurate). But, the terms America and American were to
well-established to change to anything else (among other choices instead
of America: Fredonia (Frede), Appalachia (would've quickly become
inaccurate))
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