Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America

techwooded@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I hear almost exclusively people referring to the country as “America”. This was actually a very conscious shift at the turn of the 20th century for people in public life to refer to the country as “America” instead of “the US” or “the United States” as we … acquired overseas territories and weren’t a country only of United States anymore

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