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Thread #151998 Message #3553189
Posted By: EBarnacle
26-Aug-13 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Name for people from USA
Subject: RE: BS: Name for people from USA
Back in the 50's I read a science fiction story entitled "Digging the Weans" about an archeological dig done at some indefinite time in the future. The "writer" of the report said that the country was known as the US, the proper collective term for the inhabitants of that part of North America was almost certainly pronounced WE-ans. There is no disputing that Gus is in the East.
PS, the dig was in Manhatten.