Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
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?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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David says...
Who here is saying that the name didn’t originate as a name for the continent of South America? I don’t remember ever reading on this site the claim that the name ‘America’ was first used by the USA.
12 months ago
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
I posted this 12 months ago: “Words can and do have multiple meanings. This is the case with America. America originally referred only to South America. Now it refers to many other things, including the Americas and the USA.”
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
9 months ago you (in your Saris Maria guise) and I had this exchange:
Saris Maria (United States) says...
Are you stuck in history? You seem to have slept thru it. The north (or Parias) also become part of the continent of America. Can you dispute that?
David says...
Duh. Obviously the meaning of ‘America’ was changed to include Parias. Because people change the meanings of names and words all the time. The etymology of the word clearly shows this. This is what I have been writing about for years. I do not dispute this because I cannot dispute this because it is a fact. Unlike you and your moronic ilk, I do not dispute facts.
And again. And again. And...
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
Misses the Obvious, your memory and reading comprehension are complete garbage. You are completely out of your league, and it shows. Everyone can see it. Stop embarrassing yourself.
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
No, I am not kidding. I have written such things numerous times. I wrote this 9 months ago:
“Some people consider the Americas to be 2 continents, and some consider them to be one. Originally, on the Waldseemuller map, they were considered to be 2 separate continents — America and Parias. Because people often change the meanings of names over time, the meaning (that is, what the name refers to) of the name America was changed to encompass what are now called North America and South America. Some call these subcontinents. Some call them continents. Neither is incorrect. They are just different.”
https://www.usaisnotamerica.com/?cmtx_page=37
My post from 9 months ago just moved from the very bottom of page 37 to the top of page 38.
You have been completely destroyed yet again. And again. Over and over. Rinse and repeat. You lose. I win.
So far we have established that the British knew that the colonies were in the continent of America. One continent called America.
So as these colonists were born in the new continent, they were recognized as British Citizens but were also Americans from the continent of America. In those days, the British Crown had possession of lands and colonies all over the world and so those in America, they related to them as American colonies to differentiate them from the rest of the British dominions.
Duh.
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. We established that years ago. Why are you so dim-witted and slow to catch on?
Duh. America obviously existed before the United States.
Nobody said it didn’t. It’s really easy for you to pretend you are proving a ghost wrong. Pathetic.
It’s so sad that your only way of “proving me wrong” is to repeatedly post the obvious fact that the name ‘America’ referred to a continent before it referred to the USA. NO 5HIT, SHERLOCK!!! I have never claimed otherwise, and you know it. How can this possibly be all that you’ve got?!?! You have to know how idiotic you and your “arguments” are. Stop pretending that you are making an honest, coherent, logical, and factual argument that disproves my statements. You simply aren’t. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You are a pathetic and simple-minded ignoramus.
Calm down don't have a fit! So far according to the historical fact of how the nation began, you agree that the nation was born in the continent of America, right? So next step is to find out how did the U.S. took the name of the continent in which it was located and later decided to divide that same continent that, you know and now have read through these quotes I have provided, that it was ONE continent and called America. It is important because there is a point where the U.S. divides this same continent that they knew it was one, into two. See that I am not as pathetic as you say I am, for I have provided you a small fact that there was a change somewhere in history that we need to find how it was and why was it done. You keep saying I am nuts about what I write but with what we have so far people will understand why I think the way I think the U.S. took the name of America and then divided the continent to grab the name for itself.
You are exactly as pathetic as I say you are. You are doing it again. You are stating obvious facts that I have never disputed, yet you are pretending that I have argued against them. Why don’t you find a post where I state these things that you pretend I am arguing? Find a post, provide a quote from it, and provide a link to it. You cannot do this because I have never made such a post, you monumental dumbass.
Sorry had a loss in the family so I couldn't reply to your posts. I am not here to prove anyone right or wrong, but to have a decent conversation on whether America is originally the name of a continent and that the U.S. took it for themselves and then divided the continent into two. You can offer your opinion, and when possible, back it with facts or historical evidence, and I can give my opinion and when possible, offer facts or historical evidence. You have taken this as if it is a fight. It is not. So calm down please!
In this paragraph one would see that the tax levied was to other colonies in America not under the dominion of the British Crown. The Sugar Act of 1764: "VI. And it be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in lieu and instead of the rate and duty imposed by the said act upon molasses and syrups, there shall, from and after the said twenty ninth day of September..... be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon every gallon of molasses or syrups, being the growth, product, or manufacture, of any colony or plantation in America, not under the dominion of his Majesty, his heir or successors, which shall be imported or brought into any colony or plantation in America, which now is, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, the sum of three pence."
“...the continent in which the British Colonies and plantations are is in the continent of America.”
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. I have pointed out repeatedly that ‘America’ originated as a name for South America and then changed to encompass all of the Americas. You know I have written this many times. This clearly proves I know ‘America’ did not originate as a name for the USA. Given that I have written this, why do you keep pretending that I believe the name originated as a name for the USA? You repeatedly ask me where the name originated even though I have repeatedly stated the facts about the origin. Why do you do this? You do it because you cannot disprove the facts. You do it because you cannot prove your BS. You cannot counter my actual and factual arguments, so you fabricate false and simple-minded arguments and pretend they are my arguments. You are truly pathetic and dishonest.
David said; "Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. I have pointed out repeatedly that ‘America’ originated as a name for South America and then changed to encompass all of the Americas." Are you kidding? When did you do this? Weren't you the one being nasty to me telling me that only South of America was America and that the part of the U.S. was called Parias? Are you now changing your position after I have offered the fact that you were asking about? You are all over the map David, one can't figure out where you really stand. Or do you just do it to provoke people and have a laugh at it later on? People read your posts and see what ou just posted and are going to question your maturity and knowledge after all.
You are so sad. Your intellectual inferiority almost makes me weep.
By 1733 America was still a continent to the British and where the British colonies and plantations were located: The Sugar and Molasses act of 1733: "Whereas the Welfare and Prosperity of Your Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in America are of the greatest Consequence and Importance to the Trade, Navigation, and Strength of this Kingdom: And whereas the Planters of the said Sugar Colonies have of late Years fallen under such great Discouragements, that they are unable to improve or carry on the Sugar Trade upon an equal Footing with the Foreign Sugar Colonies,"
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. You are so simple-minded, ignorant, biased, pathetic, and dishonest.
Don't you accept the history of how the British colonies began? It is the beginning of the birth of the United States, and you laugh at it? Are you really a U.S. citizen? are you a troll? A joke? You just don't accept to be wrong. This is only the beginning, there is much more to show you that if I have the time I will.
You never fail to prove that you are dumber than dirt.