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Originally Posted by Tarana
Thanks for the laugh. For The perfectionists among us, America was the 13 colonies , the USA was the independent country. And, as I learned from the Australians series, Australia is a former colony, having lost its colonial designation with political independence around 1900 or so.
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Like the United States of America, Australia was a collection of independent British colonies. These are now the states that comprise Australia. We tried to call it the United States of Australia, but we got a cease and desist letter from the United States of America for trademark infringement (not to mention that it would have been confusing - both called the USA, imagine the misdelivered diplomatic mail) so we settled on the Commonwealth of Australia.