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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Let's Name the USA People!
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:14:01 GMT
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rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) writes in a recent posting (reference <5fkqr8$1gr@panix2.panix.com>):
>Troy N. Terry <troyt@eventus.com> writes:
>> 
>> But just for fun, let's try to come up with a name
>> for the USA people and let the name "America" go
>> back to the continent.
>
>It's been tried before, some 100 years ago: "Usonians". Nobody cared.

I have heard a rumour that R.W. Emerson coined the word. 
Or was it Thoreau???

>Esperanto is the only language that adopted it, probably because it
>happened to be contemporaneous with the introduction of Esperanto in the
>US.
>
>Pierre
>-- 
>Pierre Jelenc              Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to
>rcpj@panix.com             change, but pretty soon everything is different.
>pierre@nycbeer.org                                         Calvin & Hobbes 
>                   http://www.columbia.edu/~pcj1/


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