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United Statian

 A United Statian (or Statian for short) is a person from the United States of America. An American, on the other hand, is any person in the western hemisphere: Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, and United Statians are all Americans. Similarly, Russians are Europeans just like the Germans or the French, even though Russians are not citizens of the European Union. Which leads me to the question: how do you call EU residents, then? Eurotrash?

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t5829.htm

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Twenty follows nineteen

How do you say "2010"? Coming off of "two thousand nine," you will probably say "two thousand ten." But you would be wrong, according to the National Association of Good Grammar.

"NAGG decrees that 2010 should officially be pronounced 'twenty ten,' and all subsequent years should be pronounced as 'twenty eleven,' 'twenty twelve,' etc.," proclaims the association's news release.

The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along; every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something." Twenty follows nineteen. Two thousand does not follow nineteen. It's logical.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL

Filed under: English Grammar NAGG Nazi
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