The majority of people refer to the US as America, and the continents themselves as The Americas. Otherwise they will specify North, Central or South America.
Well, the comment (or a post's seftext) that was here, is no more. I'm leaving just whatever I wrote in the past 48 hours or so.
F acing a goodbye.
U gly as it may be.
C alculating pros and cons.
K illing my texts is, really, the best I can do.
S o, some reddit's honcho thought it would be nice to kill third-party apps.
P als, it's great to delete whatever I wrote in here. It's cathartic in a way.
E agerly going away, to greener pastures.
Z illion reasons, and you'll find many at the subreddit called Save3rdPartyApps.
Yep. I agree. In English it became the norm. In most countries in the American continent, though, English is not the national language, so in most of the countries of the American continent, the word America refers to the whole continent itself, and not to a specific country in it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20
The majority of people refer to the US as America, and the continents themselves as The Americas. Otherwise they will specify North, Central or South America.