>>>>>>>>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.
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>Do you find it comfortable or uncomfortable?

of course it's uncomfortable! You ever hear of a comfortable pillory? that's the whole point of it. And this is one of those ground level jobs, with 4 holes all in a line.

I wish the bizzies would use it on the town drunken louts at chucking out time. Not that I'm ever in this town at that time to see what goes on. It is one of the most desirable places to live in England, so I've read, so maybe there aren't that many undesirables.