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Bookmark or Share- Why are the United States often referred to as America?By the way, America is the whole continent; the subdivisions are only for the sake of geographic or geological study, but the continental plate is America. Every time we, people who live in any place besides the United States of America, feel embarrassed when we hear about "being American is", "the spirit of America is", and such utterances.
- Difference between "at" and "in" when specifying locationI am used to saying "I am in India.". But somewhere I saw it said "I am at Puri (Oriisa)". I would like to know the differences between "in" and "at" in the above two sentences.
- What is the origin of the phrase "two nations divided by a common ...The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said: 'England and America are two countries divided by a common language' And here again George Bernard Shaw is stated as origin but the other names are also mentioned. Well, it likely is Shaw, actually, who said “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
- When did the term "flip flop" displace the term "thong" in North ...But several times I've come across suggestions that "thong" used to be used for this kind of sandal in North America. I'm pretty sure I came across it in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, written in 1960s New Orleans. But perhaps it was in another American novel from that era. There's this comment on the talk page of the Wiktionary "thong" entry:
- How did "gesundheit" work its way into common American usage?The expression arrived in America with early German immigrants, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch, and doubtless passed into local English usage in areas with substantial German-speaking populations.1 The expression is first widely attested in American English as of 1910, about the time when large numbers of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews ...
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