Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
>On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:32:34PM -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > 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!
>
>I don't know that I've ever heard anyone referring to the EU as simply
>Europe. In fact, I'm kind of doubtful most USers know there is an EU...
You've not? Lucky you! :-)
It's quite common we're I'm from (Sweden), and I've seen it in
English-language products like Newsweek. As for the USers, I've got a
feeling they'll learn that one - the EU is somewhat big (larger economy than
the US for example).

                                                   Andreas

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