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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <1056@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 16:45:51 EST
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1056
Posted: Sun Nov 17 16:45:51 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 07:40:59 EST
References: <348@ubvax.UUCP> <9500006@prism.UUCP>
Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics
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Summary: 

In article <9500006@prism.UUCP> dawn@prism.UUCP writes:
>	Some friends of mine in Canada refer to people from the United
>	States as "U.S.-ans".

Is that pronounced 'yu-es-ans' or 'yu-sans'?

If we all started calling the U.S.A. "usa" (yu-sa), the latter would
be appropriate by analogy with California or Georgia.  Maybe we can
start a trend -- shades of Cheese Triscuits!

(We wouldn't be the only ones to try this -- look at "USA Today" with
their invariant use of "USA" when other newspapers use "US" or "United
States"; it still looks unnatural to me.)
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					Scott Anderson
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