UK School holidays

[spi00000000]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "ovc88guelph" <mckosvc at b...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > >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!

What about "Americans"-- who are infuriated by the word Yanks!!!  I 
feel like I'm in the revolutionary war or something.

Spi