Is the United Nations a country? Of course not, thou says. It’s an association. Is the European Union a country? Nope, is thy response. It’s a union. Is the United States of America a country? Wait a moment. The USofA is a union. It’s right there in the name. It’s the United States of America. It’s […]
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“I am from one of the United States” is the correct phrase
“United States” can mean at least two things: the many states of the union and a corporation. There may also be a Supreme Court ruling that acknowledges ‘United States’ can mean three things. For this post, I will focus on the fact that United States is a plural reference as one might say landlocked states […]