PS. As long as microaggressions have been brought up -- contributors should be careful writing "America" when they really mean "United States."
The official name, of course, is both - "The United States Of America." (And of course I think of Thomson in 1776 commenting that that doesn't seem like a very good name for a new country.) But it's been called "America" as often as it's called "The United States" or "the US" or "The USA" or even "The US of A." I don't think that any of those titles are any more right or meaningful than another - no connotations, etc. We know from context whether someone is referring to New York as a state or a city - we know from context that one means either the state of Washington or Washington DC. This isn't Bet Hatikvah vs. Petah Tikvah. With a P.
And Irving Berlin wrote "God Bless America" all those years ago, not "God Bless You, Nited States." ;-)
Next topic, please - as I do agree this thread is going nowhere - with a B. |
