Incidentally is anyone else really annoyed that there is no noun for ‘people from the USA’ that unambiguously means ‘people from the USA’?

[loki-zen]

I know ‘Americans’ is generally understood to have that meaning, but:

a) It is still ambiguous, and that irritates me. How, if this is the nomenclature, are we to refer to ‘people from the continents of America’?

b) The fact that ‘Americans’ and ‘America’ are understood to solely refer to people from the USA seems to me to be part of the ‘we are the only people and place that exists or matters’ thing that US culture can sometimes project, and that really irritates me, which makes the word usage irritating beyond just its ambiguity.

[thetransintransgenic]

[decameter]

I’d like to say Yanks but apparently it has a different meaning in the USA.

[isaacsapphire]

“Yankee” is a kind of complex word.

“For northerners, a “yankee” is somebody from New England. For New Englanders, a “yankee” is somebody from Vermont. For Vermonters, a “yankee” is somebody who eats apple pie for breakfast.“ http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000205.html

Anyway, it would also be nice to have a word for people from North and South America as a group.

[confusedbyinterface]

Seppos.

[cromulentenough]

americasians

[nuclearspaceheater]

All of the Americas belong to the United States.

[mitigatedchaos]

Don’t worry, guys.  This ends with the annexation of Mexico in 2068 and the formation of the North American Union, at which point we are known as Unionese.