Anna, my friend from Venezuela has a pet peeve about the word ‘America.’ Anna would say the Americas is not just the USA. Why do you talk like South America does not exist? So I changed. I am more aware.
PS/ I always liked the song ‘A Horse with No Name.’
I've always liked that song as well.
Plenty of place names are misnomers, and people all around the world call our country 'America' - not just us. To me it's - along with 'the US' and 'USA' - short for United States of America, not a claim we are the only country in the western hemisphere. Does she know where the name Venezuela came from?