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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Tommie L Powell wrote: > "United States" is a pair of English words, and other languages > substitute their own words for "united" and "states" when they > translate "United States" (so, for example, Mexicans refer to > the USA as the EUA). But "America" is virtually the same in > all languages. Korea says "Migeuk" for Americans, meaning the U.S. (since Koreans generally have a lot more experience of U.S. people--generally military folks--than other Americans). I don't know where it comes from, though I used to. But if you say "America" you'll probably be understood. YHL