Tue Sep 3 13:40:41 UTC 2002

"gadassov" wrote

> At the same time, when Rezanov or Kruzenstern spoke about "Americans",
they
referred to Indians from Alaska or California, where white people were
Spaniards."

and they called, I think,  the people we nowadays call "Americans"
"Bostonians"

"Canadian" has undergone similar shifts

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