No Americans of the Day
No Americans of the Day
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- This labels two different continents as a single one, omits Greenland from NA, and wrongly IDs Central America as a continent. Learn geography.i_monk
- America is TWO continents, you blatant moron.iCanHazQBN
- Only one country is referred to as America and has been for about 500 years. It is America regardless of continent.monospaced
- Sometimes words have two meanings!
*****The more you know...nb - Incorrect, it's officially the Americas. It's three continents so you have to plurialize.zarkonite
- The name of the country is United States of America (USA) - and it's grammatically correct to use the last word of a nomenclature to determine the noun form.zarkonite
- So, you're trying to say that the billions of people outside the USA who've referred to it as "America" have gotten it wrong? LOLmonospaced
- And billions say "America" but mean the continent.i_monk
- By definition, Canada should be included with 'Latin America'. French is a Romance language, and is one of the two official languages in Canada.Continuity
- (this is, of course, going on the assumption we can call what they speak in Quebec and the Maritimes 'French'. The jury is out on this one.)Continuity