>>>>>>>Part of this problem may have been created by the founders of the USA when they named it the 'United States of America'.
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>>>>>>Well it is on the continent named North America so it should be the United States of America or maybe on America.
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>>>>>Isn't Mexico in America and composed of states which are united in one country?
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>>>>There wasn't any 'America' or 'North America' when Mexico first became it's own country was there? :o)
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>>>Not that I quite follow you, but it is/was meso-America
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>>>Oh, and you know me, can't help pointing out the possessive "it's" :-(
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>>It's an easy mistake to make.
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>I know. I even did it last week but, thanks be to God, I spotted it just in time before publishing. Otherwise I could/would/should have been publicly pilloried for it.
>BTW, in the town where I work, Horsham, there IS a public pillory in the main market square.

Do you find it comfortable or uncomfortable?