America is a continent, not a country
America is a continent, not a country
Posted Aug 14, 2024 13:12 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: America is a continent, not a country by Delicieuxz
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There are widely-recognized demonyms to refer to a US citizen other than the misnomer and misappropriation of American. Just maybe not in English.
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright was in favour of the term “Usonian”, which however does not seem to have caught on.
The only language which appears to have picked it up is Esperanto, where the United States is called usono, and its inhabitants are usonanoj.