https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn, the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to those 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America.
The list of 45 includes territories. Greg ------------------------------------- On 11/19/2015 04:32 PM, Paul A wrote: > At 03:40 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote: >> Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency >> to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United >> States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than >> a felony warranting a call-to-arms. > > Very respectfully, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America> lists > 45 countries (colourful table about 20% down the page)[1] including > what "old-fashioned me" used to call "Central America" and "the > Caribbean." North America is, at the very least, Canada, the USA, St > Pierre et Miquelon and Greenland. > > The phrase "Koha North America User's Group would like to invite > agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its > third annual meeting" is *NOT* a "linguistic peccadillo", it is an > explicitly discriminatory invitation. > > Paul > [1] Including, btw, La Navasse which is seen by most historians as an > anomalous US land-grab under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 which > allows the US President to "consider as appertaining to the United > States" any piece of real estate covered in ... guano. > ---------------snip------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha