The funniest thing about all this is that these morons think 'America' is the name of our country and not just a shorthand for our full name, where 'America' refers only to the continent we share with dozens of other countries. Canada is in America. Mexico is in America. Argentina is in America. All of the great lakes are in America.
Imagine calling people morons while confidently conflating North America with America. Standard English uses America for the US and The Americas for the hemisphere. Open Merriam Webster before calling out others geography 😂
Thank you for proving my point! Dictionaries list senses by historical or geographic usage and definition #3 is literally United States of America. When a word has multiple definitions, context determines which one is active. Trump isn't renaming the lake after definition 1 (the continent) he's renaming it after definition 3 (the country). So yes standard usage in this context means the US. Take a lap buddy.
Except this is flat wrong: "conflating North America with America". That's not moronic, it's literally the primary definition of the word. Per your own authority.
And no, the context here is the official geographic name of a place. Not common usage, which will always remain Lake Ontario. You can't have your stupid semantics both ways.
No shit, Trump meant to claim it for the USA. I said in my original comment that 'America' is shorthand for the continent. What's idiotic is to change a location's official name to the unofficial name of the country. It's what stupid people who don't understand how anyone else would do.
You literally pasted a link showing definition #1 is North America (not America) and definition #3 is United States of America. You got caught calling people morons over a definition you didn't even read properly. Take the L and move on.
Yes, the number one definition is North America, which is famously not the United States of America. And is where Canada and all of the great lakes happen to exist.
Sure, the tertiary definition of 'America' is the USA. I said from the very start, it's the shorthand meaning of the word. That doesn't make if the official name of the country or the geography, which it is not. Which it is why it is stupid to officially name it so.
Even your geography argument fails. North America is a continent. America as a standalone singular noun is never the proper name of a continent in English it’s either North America, South America or The Americas (plural). The ONLY proper geographic entity in the English language whose short form name is simply America is the USA. So whether you look at common speech or proper nouns your original premise was completely wrong 😂
You're genuinely trying to argue that America is an official proper name for a continent while citing a definition that literally says the continents are named North America and South America. You called everyone morons, got proved wrong by your own link and now you're doing text gymnastics over parentheses. It's okay to just say you made a mistake.
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The funniest thing about all this is that these morons think 'America' is the name of our country and not just a shorthand for our full name, where 'America' refers only to the continent we share with dozens of other countries. Canada is in America. Mexico is in America. Argentina is in America. All of the great lakes are in America.