America and American

A. Maberry maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Tue Feb 19 19:02:02 UTC 2002


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Billionbridges.com wrote:
>
> If Mexicans are from the United States of Mexico, one can understand
> why they see the United States of America as a misnomer. Here's a
> modest proposal: why not change the name of the country to the "United
> States of Washington"? Aren't you all, in a very real sense,
> "Washingtonians"?

You might get some argument about that from the residents of Washington
state ...

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu



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