Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The X-Window System | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 06 May 2003 12:55:58 +0900 |
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uaca@alumni.uv.es writes: > well... I don't think that "America" is a good example > > there are a lot countries/population in America not in the USA
I know this gets some people's knickers in a twist, but in normal English usage, `America' means the USA.
[In practice this isn't even confusing because it's pretty rare to refer to both North and South America together as a unit, and then most people seem to use `the Americas']
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