Re: Islam and Europe and Joe

From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Sat 23 Nov 2002 - 10:14:39 GMT

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    At 08:24 PM 22/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
    >
    >On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:54 , Bruce Howlett wrote:
    >
    >> Need a definition of "usanians". Not in any dictionary I can find!
    >
    >Dwellers in the present USA. I first encountered this word here on the
    >internet, several years ago, used by a poster from Amsterdam. I liked it
    >immediately. Not to be confused with 'american'. Similar in construction
    >to 'european', especially now that the euro is a fact.
    >
    >Although, 'eurians' would be nice, too.
    >
    >- Wade
    >
    That's interesting Wade. I have been using USAnia for about five years now, so I suppose your Amsterdam correspondent either picked it up from the net or thought of it independently. Could this be a meme taking off? Jeremy

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