> but in Germanic languages (like English) Well, yes, in theory you could use 'Amerikas' in German, but nowadays that's mostly because of a bad translation. It

> but in Germanic languages (like English) Well, yes, in theory you could use 'Amerikas' in German, but nowadays that's mostly because of a bad translation. It actually is correct German to speak of 'both America' - 'beide Amerika' (in singular). https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Amerika https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Amerika > So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness. Of course it is pedantry.