Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

David wrote:
>
>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'm dead with you on this. I also dislike seeing "Europe" being used for the
EU. Most Americans don't live in the USA and most Europeans don't live in
the EU! And don't get me started on relative sizes!

What we'd really need here is a word "USites" or "USAians" for the citizens
of the USA, and possibly something like "EUites" for the citizens of the EU.
Now these words aren't too pronounceable, any better ideas?

                                                      Andreas

PS Is "United-Staters" too long? Anybody agree that "Euans" would be a nice
term for us EU people? Or since the Brussels élite is increasingly often
refered to as "Eurocrats", perhaps we normal people are the "Europlebs"?
"Eurolings"?
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