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    2 days ago

    I mean… I don’t disagree, but no other nation put “America” in their name. “United” and “States” are even more generic. Heck, “United States” isn’t even distinctive.

    • “Uni” is already “university”,
    • “Statist” is already something else
    • Statian / station
    • Stater / stator
    • Unitian / munition
    • “Unitarian” is already something
    • Unit 👎
    • Unish 👎
    • Ustan / Houston
    • UnStan, UnStian, UniStan, UniStAm👎
    • “Yank(ee)” is almost exclusively derogatory, and a fair chunk of the nation uses it to denigrate a different chunk.
    • “Yu-ess-ee-an” is just unbelievably awful
    • Usonian” didn’t take off, but we could give it another go 🤷‍♂️