They should be called United Statesians in English. I know États-Uniens is the official name in French.
What is it in other langages? How can we promote such use?
Why am I asking? The US administration is currently a disgrace on the world stage, and I am thinking how it unjustly hurts people from the rest of the American continent.
I am thinking how it unjustly hurts people from the rest of the American continent.
Here in Canada, we call people from the USA “Americans”. There’s no confusion, and if you called a Canadian “American” they would correct you immediately. If you explained you meant it in reference to the continent of North America they would still insist that you don’t. It may be technically correct, but it would be frowned upon. We appreciate your consideration, but the word is firmly their word, at least to us. “North American” would be fine, though.
Also Canadian. Europeans are weird about this. They’ve always been Americans to us and it doesn’t refer to the continent.
I used to work with a Canadian (From Vancouver, iirc) who used to emphasize “North American” when people made the wrong assumption. I guess it makes sense once the focus is on region/continent instead of country.
I mean, “Yanks” is right there.
Or “septics”, if you wish to be politically correct.
/jk
Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States
Realistically? The breakup/balkanization of the US. Which is a nonzero and growing possibility by the look of things here.
“USian” just sounds better and not horrid to me . Normalise calling them USians
Already is normal on mastodon
I’m pronouncing it like Asian, but with a U. How about everyone else?
