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Re: Nationality or ethnicity with the definite article



On Sat, 28 May 2005 16:37:55 -0400, jerryb@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>More onomastics: Brazil is really The United States of Brazil.

a Republica Federativa do Brasil -- the "Federative Republic of
Brazil"

>And I
>think one or more of our neighbors is also United States of ....

los Estados Unidos Mexicanos -- the "United Mexican States"


-- Stephen Carter
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  Nagoya, Japan