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Originally Posted by TheMessenger
North America is a continent, South America is a continent, America, when saying just the word, is widely accepted as meaning the United States of America, that's what I've come to gather anyway ^^
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Nop.
America is a continent. North and Sout America are "Subcontinents"
USA is a country whith no own name, who stoled the denomination of the whole continent.
It reflex, in my opinion, the wrong idea that they "are" the continent.
And in not so "widely" accepted.
In argentina, American, is related to the continent, and "yanqui" ( yanquee) or "Estados Unidos" ( United States ) to refer the country.