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It's interesting to see that back then (I now checked that even before the Civil War period) the term United States of North America was used. To the history af
by ezequiel-garzon 10y ago
It's interesting to see that back then (I now checked that even before the Civil War period) the term United States of North America was used. To the history aficionados, was USNA more commonplace than USA? If so, when did USA become prevalent?
- dredmorbius 10y agoUSA since at 1776, no contest: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=United+States+of+North+America%2CUnited+States+of+America&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1750&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CUnited%20States%20of%20North%20America%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BUnited%20States%20of%20North%20America%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BUNITED%20STATES%20OF%20NORTH%20AMERICA%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2CUnited%20States%20of%20America%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BUnited%20States%20of%20America%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BUNITED%20STATES%20OF%20AMERICA%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=United+States+...
- ezequiel-garzon 10y agoThanks, that's what I always thought, having found it always puzzling as "an American from Argentina" :) That's why I always surprised this usage in a NYT piece, and before: https://books.google.es/books?id=pVdDAQAAIAAJ https://books.google.es/books?id=pVdDAQAAIAAJ .
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- douche 10y agoThis may have been due to the brief existence of the Federal Republic of Central America[1] in the antebellum period, which was often called the United States of Central America[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_Am... [2] If you play the Paradox Interactive video games Victoria or Victoria II, it is named the United States of Central America there as well.