With regard to the naming and self-naming of people: what about the citizens of the USA? They have appropriated the name of a continent, not only for the name of their nation-state, which only unites a small proportion of the territory of the Americas, but they have also attached the generic term 'American' to themselves exclusively.... (Please don't take this seriously...just net-overload-induced musing....) Hugo Radice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
