U.S. retirees busted at border with undeclared arsenal

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42. god it's thick around here

How many times do some things have to be explained, and how slowly?

Anyone who lives in the Americas is an "American".

People in the US are Americans. People in Cuba are Americans. People in Chile are Americans. These are the Americas; this is America. You in the United States of America share the Americas, America, with the rest of us, whether you like it or not.

If you have a better way of referring to someone who lives in / is a citizen of the United States of America than "USAmerican", feel free to propose it.

Meanwhile, I'll use the term that is in widespread use in English, French and Spanish -- and oh look, Portuguese ... German ...:

USAmerican
états-unien(ne) (from Etats-Unis, which you probably don't know is French for United States)
estadounidense (from Estados Unidos)
estadunidense
US-Amerikaner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_United_States_citizens

Did google break when I wasn't looking?

It is no one's fault that a couple of centuries ago, a group of colonies decided to call themselves by a name that failed to distinguish them from other parts of their hemisphere. You live in the United States of America. There are other states, and other peoples and people, in America.


I think that is telling of opinion of anything not canadian.

Whatever it's supposedly telling, it ain't telling it to me, and I don't think it's telling it to anybody else, either.