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Suga Foot

USA: The Country without a name...
« on: December 20, 2003, 11:39:19 AM »
The United States Of America is a description, not a name.  It's like calling Canada "The United Provinces of America".  Kinda weird that the USA was never actually given a name.  


One other thing I noticed.  Look at the Washington Family Coat of Arms:



Stars and Stripes!  And is that an Eagle on top?
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2003, 01:12:34 PM »
well it kiddna has something do with the fact  of how the US came to be and the ideals of the big states and little states


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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2003, 09:30:25 PM »
Hmmm, I really don't think it's that strange.  The land wasn't called "America" by the natives, it was a name given the entire area by settlers.  So "America" in a sense is a name given this entire area, and the "United States of America" is a portion of the bigger area named "America".  
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2003, 09:31:21 PM »
Oh, and one of my favorite country names is "L'cote D'voire" (probably horribly misspelled)

"The Ivory Coast", another descriptive name
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2003, 10:51:52 PM »
U.A.E is another
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2003, 06:51:11 AM »
i think describes the area where there is states in america because u have North America and South America
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2003, 08:13:52 AM »
I think this is the case with many countries actually. The Netherlands for example is officially called 'Kingdom of The Netherlands', while everybody (literally translated) calls it Netherland.
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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2003, 05:19:23 PM »
There's the famous "Iceland" and "Greenland", Iceland was named Iceland because somebody wanted to keep it a secret that it was so nice there, and wanted all the land to himself (can't remember which king/explorer).
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2003, 10:43:59 PM »
^ it was to throw the vikings off.


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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2003, 11:48:35 PM »
LOL, thats a sweet plan.  hahaha clever scheming mofos all throughout history.
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2003, 01:40:16 PM »
LOL, thats a sweet plan.  hahaha clever scheming mofos all throughout history.

man, they must have been dumb  ;D
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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2003, 06:36:18 AM »
^ but not smart enough to name themselves "captain shit".  
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2003, 07:04:01 AM »
LOL, thats a sweet plan.  hahaha clever scheming mofos all throughout history.

 :D shutup corny bitch
 

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Re:USA: The Country without a name...
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2003, 01:24:39 PM »
^ but not smart enough to name themselves "captain shit".  

You wouldn't understand the name unless you have seen the TV show Trailer Park Boys. Season 3, Episode 8 I believe.

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