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Originally Posted by mjhudston
Here in the UK some of us have started calling it American, Australian and Canadian, as opposed to English, although this has yet to get mainstream use, but it helps differentiate what are in effect different languages.
I cannot write in American , so I write in English.
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Just found this thread. I have laughed so hard and as a Canadian especially appreciated this post ~ nice to see some folks distinguish us from either the UK or the US - any way we can!
Canadian, eh? ^ - ^
I can tell you for sure I usually call my neighbours to the south Americans ~ and never myself. North American, yes.
My editor insisted I change the spelling in The Storyteller to 'American' and I did - after all my main protagonist lives in Seattle, a very close neighbor, lol.
Now I sometimes even finding myself changing my spelling in posts, :: sigh :: Will be interesting to see how the entire world changes the language, which seems destined to become the most-spoken across the board.