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Re: Nationality or ethnicity with the definite article
- Subject: Re: Nationality or ethnicity with the definite article
- From: "Stephen A. Carter" scarter@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 08:03:06 +0900 (JST)
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
scarter@xxxxxxxx
Nagoya, Japan