America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
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“El Cementerio Americano, the American Cemetery, is the last ghostly reminder of the quarter century when the United States ran La Isla as a virtual colony.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/travel/cuba-isle-of-youth-isla-de-juventud.html
“El camposanto donde reposan los restos de cientos de ciudadanos estadounidenses en la Isla de la Juventud, y conocido entre sus pobladores como el Cementerio de los Americanos – o el Cementerio Americano – fue proclamado este miércoles como Monumento Nacional.”
https://bit.ly/2UYh2ol
GUYS I TOLD YOU TO REPORT MORGAN, SHE IS USING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS TO UPVOTE HERSELF AND DOWNVOTE OTHERS, ERNESTO IS ONE OF HE MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. PLEASE REPORT HER.
A DISTINGUISHED AND WELL EDUCATED VOTE :)
Eh? Morgan, baby, are you butthurt?
I like it there too, but you should take it easy =*
Just get a two-four, put some vaseline before and you'll alright next time baby
He doesn't like to be called Statian. He prefers U.S. American.
I am a United Statian girl, yes. Happy? but I am American too
Well said darling, we are all Americans here
The sickest of burns: https://hinative.com/pt-BR/questions/3016379
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
A distinguished and well educated burn :)
From the Brazilian Senate’s official website:
“Adjetivos gentílicos estrangeiros”
“Estados Unidos: norte-americano, estadunidense ou americano”
https://bit.ly/3dwyiY7
Americano é a forma mais comum e também a mais enraizada na história de nossa língua. De Machado de Assis a Caetano Veloso – “Americanos são muito estatísticos/ Têm gestos nítidos e sorrisos límpidos” – existe uma tradição cultural séria a legitimar americano como termo preferencial para designar o que se refere aos Estados Unidos no português brasileiro.
https://bit.ly/2SKRxGu
Muito ignorante
There are exceptions. Words like always, no one, everyone, never, etc. tend to be wrongly used. What matters is the correct or the wrong use of "America" and "American", not whether people do it or not.
This site exists to disclose the wrong usage. Something you will not hear in the US TV, its networks and associates.
Morgan, honey, are you a Statian? wanna visit me? ;)
Oh yeah
XD
People, poeple, is there a way to ban Morgan. If you saw a comment from Morgan please, report it, because he is harassing people.
Let him enjoy "USA is not America" :)
A distinguished and well educated enjoyment :)
Ehh? HAaaaahahahaha crazy as hell
“No one in Latin America call the US as America nor poeple from the US as American.”
You really believe this is a factual statement? You really think I can’t easily prove this wrong? You are completely out of your element.
Prove it, go ahead.
Hey Andy! I think Morgan did just prove … that Brazilians in Latin America really do use Americano (the Spanish word) to refer to the residents of United States rather than the residents of the 2 American Continents.
He posted a link on “1st July 2021 11:54pm”.
Even so, that is RIDICULOUS because Brazilians have to realize … they too are Americans (or Americanos). They are incorrectly using American/Americano if they are referring to the residents of United States only.
If you haven’t seen the comments from Brazilians, then feel free to click on the link that Morgan sent.