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From: jose@utcs.UUCP (Jose Antonio Dias)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
Message-ID: <661@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-May-85 00:13:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcs.661
Posted: Mon May 27 00:13:07 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 27-May-85 01:34:05 EDT
References: <14412@watmath.UUCP> <2072@sdcc6.UUCP> <700@teklds.UUCP> <1567@ihuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jose@utcs.UUCP (Jose Antonio Dias)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Summary: 

In article <1567@ihuxl.UUCP> essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) writes:
>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).

That is true of many countries in South America.  Many "copied" their
constitution from the Americans.  This is a left over from the 50's when
it was fashionable to "go down" to Brazil or Argentina during our winter.

Just thought you would like to know...
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Jose A. Dias			       University of Toronto Computing Services
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