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From: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 12:53:33 EDT
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>Another thing wrong with "United Stateseans" is that the USA is
>not the only country whose official name is United States of ...
>(I believe Brazil's official name is United States of Brazil, or
>whatever that translates into in Portugese, and I'm pretty sure
>that there are others).

My wife is a native of Brazil.  She says that no matter what their
dictionary says, Brazilians use [the literal Portuguese translations]
of "United States", "America", and "USA" as synonyms.  Brazilians
call their country Brazil (er, their spelling is Brasil).

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