America and American

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> > 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"?
> >
> > While indeed that's a cumbersome epithet, invariably it would be
> > shortened to "Washers". That rolls off the tongue quite nicely.
> >
> > Even better, a Canadian with a certain comic sensibility might come
> > to be known as, erm, a "Dryer". <g>
>
> OK.  Then what would people like me, who live in Washington *State* refer
to
> themselves as?  I had a bad enough time when I lived in Texas, and people
> there thought "Washington", meant D.C., unless I prefaced it with
"Seattle",
> and then I'd get remarks that suggested Seattle was jammed up near the
North
> Pole or some such, but that's a different story.
> Anne G

Oh, you'd have to change the name of your state to "Cascadia".
Wasn't that, at one point, going to be the name anyway?

Don at still_tongue_in_cheek