Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> > As a fair number of the people who know me would guess I'd mention: NOT
> > ALL ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE AMERICAN. And I don't care whether or not you
> > meant to say that, or even imply that. I don't like it when people make
> > it way to easy for me to inferr it.
> > Apologies for the anger...
>
> Sorry mate, I'm I canucklehead and I usually get irked about that too when
> people especially in Eastern Europe call Canada America...
>
But Canada is part of America, the continent that is.
What bugs me is when people use "America" to refer to the "United
States". Probably my geology education causing me to think in terms of
land masses and not countries. But it looks like I'm fighting a losing
battle on this one, since its in common use and there's not much I can
do about it. :)
I hope I don't insult anyone with the above. I just wanted to share my
own linguistic peculiarity, not step on toes.
David