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Re: What to call America
Posted By: Juho, on host 130.233.240.63
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2000, at 00:32:21
In Reply To: Re: What to call America posted by Brunnen-G on Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at 12:54:49:

> > > How about UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
> >
> > Heh. I was going to post the exact same thing before I saw this.
>
> Here's a thought. In our modern acronym-littered world, why do we still pronounce every letter when we say "U.S.A."? Shouldn't we be calling the country Yooza?
>
> Brunnen-"runs and hides"G

In Finnish, we don't. We either call it "Yhdysvallat", which is the whole name translated to Finnish, or Yooza. Well, that's not exactly the way we pronounce it, but it's quite near.

Juho

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