Re: OT: Bush quotes
On Thu February 5 2009 09:58:39 Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009, John Hasler wrote:
> > -c writes:
> > > If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take
> > > offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to
> > > attempt to get this right (and even support the effort to attempt
> > > to educate my fellow USians).
> >
> > Please try to come up with something less idiotic than "USian".
> > That's about as likely to catch on as "EUian".
> >
> > (Not that it matters: the rest of the world will go on calling
> > residents of the United States of America "Americans" no matter what
> > we say.) --
>
> Frank Lloyd Wright had a term for the family houses he designed that fit
> more in the middle class than wealthy. He called them Usonian homes.
> Perhaps Usonian?
Common soldiers and sailors solved this problem long ago.
Yanks, frogs, aussies, canucks, poms, krauts, ...
--Mike Bird
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