>>No need to apologize!
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>>You got it. The term "American" is a double mistake.
>>1) There is no continent called America (only North America and South America) so nobody should be called an American
>>2) Refering to people United States of America as Americans is a misunderstanding of the descriptive nature of the name. A better name would be "Unionists" or "UnitedStaters", though I realize that Unionist has some civil war connotations. How about USA'er?
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>How about just yanks? :-) You're canucks, we're Brits or limeys

I thought 'limeys' referred to the sailors among you. No sarcasm or joke intended. I just seem to recall hearing that.