UK School holidays

[ovc88guelph]

> 
> >MMCK. who would ask Brits and Euros to refrain from calling all 
of us 
> >across the water "Americans". That would be like calling 
Seamus "English"!
> 
> Sorry, but I don't get the logic. "America" is not a country, it's 
a 
> continent. The fact that residents of the USA haven't invented a 
name for 
> themselves in their 200 year history is their problem. What I mean 
is that 
> the confusion is in calling residents of the USA "Americans", not 
in 
> calling Canadians or Mexicans "Americans".
> 
> Personally, I get around the problem by calling all residents of 
the USA 
> "Yanks". :-)
  Now me again. America is not a continent. North America is. I am 
quite comfortable being called North American, but it's a bit 
long! ;D. Since I'm pretty sure "God Bless America" is not meant to 
bless Canadians and Mexicans as well, and that waving the "American 
Flag" means waving the stars and stipes, it would seem the Yanks 
have indeed invented a name for themselves by referring to 
themselves as Americans. I wonder if those of us who use the 
term "Yanks" or "Yankees" are annoying people from the southern 
States in the same way I am annoyed by being called American! C'est 
la vie!
  Thanks for enlightening me on the school year.  Oh yes, I am 
avoiding HP4GU only because the real thing is so tantalizingly close 
that nothing else will satisfy me!
MMCK, who would move this to the OT board, but doesn't know how!