From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Sat 23 Nov 2002 - 10:27:55 GMT
At 08:51 PM 23/11/02 +1100, you wrote:
>At 06:01 PM 22/11/02 -0600, you wrote:
>>> Joe:
>>> Need a definition of "usanians". Not in any dictionary I can find!
>>>
>>Bruce: They are people who come from usanus.
>>>
>No guys you won't find it in the dictionaries 'cos it's one of mine, but
>the confusion is somewhat diminished if you use the upper case for the
>first three letters, i.e. USAnia. I found that it was less insulting for
>the rest of the American nations to have a word to describe those Americans
>who just come from the USA. After all Mexico has Mexicans, Argentina has
>Argentinians, Canada has Canadians, so I thought it was only fair that the
>USA should have USAnians.
>I hope that this has cleared up any misunderstandings.
>Jeremy
>
>
Looks like I must have re-invented the wheel again. Thank you all for your
research.
Jeremy
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