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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Comments (1446)
Listen I had a loss in the family so I couldn't reply. David, stop being so impulsive. I am just building my case and why I believe as I believe regarding the issue of America. These information which I wrote a few days ago are from before the country was even born. It is just the beginning of what I am trying to say. So that is why I stated that we got that America was one continent. We both seem to agree on that. But before the continent was mapped in the 1507 map, the lands being discovered were thought to be all part of a "New World" when they finally realized that it was not Asia(China, India Etc). This new world, was still under discoveries from European navigators from various countries such as Spain, Portugal, and others. This is where Amerigo Vespucci enters into the scene. I am reading a book about him which has him as the one who discovered that the lands were not part of Asia but a new world a new continent. Meanwhile Columbus thought he had found Asia.
Mrs. Anonymous says...
People have been conditioned to call the United States "America" for years and years not realizing that the name belongs to the continent in which the country resides. America is still a continent, even though the English speaking countries, like the U.K. and the U.S. teach a two continent version in today's schools, the original version, which other countries still teach, is still one continent called America.
3 months ago
David says...
Wrong again...and again...and again, payasa. The original version is America and Parias. 1507! Why do you keep pretending that America has always referred to all of the Americas? It’s because you falsely claim that proper nouns can never acquire additional meanings, so you have to lie to yourself and everyone else that the meaning of America didn’t change from South America to all of the Americas. But then you say that the name did change in order to encompass all of the Americas, but only that specific change in the meaning of a proper noun is acceptable, but the change in meaning to the USA is somehow unacceptable. You are dishonest, delusional, and completely full of BS.
3 months ago
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
Today is commemorated in Argentina the 170 years since the death of José de San Martín who with his military campaigns liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru from the tyranny of the Spanish crown at that time, and that is why he is called "The Liberator of America" in South America .
My tribute here to this hero of freedom.
¡Viva el General San Martín!
Mrs. Special Needs, why are you so quiet? Cat got your tongue?
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
Have I answered these questions to your full satisfaction? ;-)
Too much spam here... eau de toilette
haua haua haua haha coming from the North
David says...
When will you and your ilk learn that proof of the existence of one meaning of ‘America’ does not disprove the existence of the word’s other meanings? Yes, we know, ‘America’ can mean ‘the Americas’. We also know that it can mean the USA. You can list all the soccer tournaments you want. You can mention the 5 rings of the Olympic flag. You can pretend that the name of the Organization of American States is some devastating proof of your so-called argument. Yet, after all this, the fact remains that many, many, many people use ‘America’ to mean the USA. Sorry, kids, but facts are facts. The truth sometimes hurts, but it shall set you free.
a year ago
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
Incidentally, this was my post that Fake David copied while impersonating me. Fake David wrote:
“When will you and your ilk learn that proof of the existence of one meaning of ‘America’ does not disprove the existence of the word’s other meanings even when wrong? We rule the world. Get over it! Mongolian-American”
David says...
‘America’ originally meant South America. The word has acquired different meanings in various languages over the years. One meaning of ‘America’ is the Americas. Another meaning of ‘America’ is the United States of America. Neither of these meanings is the original meaning of the word. However, we know that both newer meanings exist, and that they are both equally valid.
a year ago
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”
I think it's time for UK to recolonize the US...
Time to clean up this mess...
(Don't be offended United Statian friends; I am joking... almost...)
China discovered America in 1421.
Hahah you will not find that in United Statian literature
David says...
“The name America, such a natural poetic counterpart to Asia, Africa and Europa, had filled a vacuum, and there was no going back, especially not after the young Gerardus Mercator, destined to become the century's most influential cartographer, decided that the whole of the New World, not just its southern part, should be so labeled. The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-waldseemuller-map-charting-the-new-world-148815355/
a year ago
“Are you kidding? When did you do this?”