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Old 10th July 2008, 11:21 AM   #8 (permalink)
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"Markku Grönroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote in message
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> Canadians can be
>
> 1.Canadian
> 2. North American
> 3. Americans not speaking Spanish


Three is wrong. We're not Americans and therefore cannot be a subset of
Americans.

> But they are not American.


In Canadian English, North and South America are continents and America is
an (albeit little used) abbreviated name for the country that borders us to
the south so an American is a citizen of that country.

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