United States OR America?

[Adagio]

I mostly say "Amerika"... but sometimes it's USA also

[Dinner]

No Banana option? This thread will self destruct in 5...4...3...2...

[Inverse Icarus]

i live in the US, and i'm american.

[GePap]

Usually United States.

The good thing is that in Spanish, you can say gringo without saying it: estadunidense (as in someone from the United states, or EE UU). But most people still say Americanos.

[JCG]

"United States" or "USA", yet "Northamerican" works in a pinch.

Btw, "Estadounidense" or "Norteamericano" is what I usually hear in Spanish, while "Americano" is very rare among my Latinamerican friends (different hangouts, I guess). "Gringo"/"yanqui" are the most common in daily conversation though.

Frankly, the Founding Fathers & co. should have come up with a more original name...not simply reusing the name of the continent and adding "United States of"....very uncreative, rather bland and "pragmatic".

I'm sure say, most of Europe, would be a little PO'ed if France or Germany had called themselves "Something (Empire, Reich, Federation, whatever) of Europe".

[DanielXY]

amiland

[:) Smiley]

I believe that when they chose the name an alternate was Columbia.

[Kirnwaffen]

Typically, the USA, or United States, or just the States. Never heard Amiland before. Guess it makes sense tho.

[Geronimo]

The founding fathers didn't see any problem with including the name of the continent in their new countries name because, as is the case in Australia, there were no other countries in the continent at the time.

[DRoseDARs]

Varies, but I try to avoid calling it America as that's a pair of continents, not a country.

[Dis]

I call it both

I rarely use USA, and never actually say the long form of USA. I prefer US

[Atahualpa]

[Harovan]

USA most of the time.

Vereinigte Staaten (= United States) sometimes, knowing that it's equivalent of calling China just the Peoples Republic and therefor incomplete.

Amerika seldom, being well aware that there are a lot of other countries on the continent with that name. Neither do I call the EU Europe, and not only because it's not yet a country.

Amiland and similar yet more seldom and only in snide remarks.

[Wernazuma III]

I generally call it US but call US citizens "Americans", although I agree with Sir Ralph that it should be avoided, like with EU/Europe(ans). I always hate it when in the media there's something about our eastern neighbors and they say "They're on their way to Europe." How stupid!

[Whaleboy]

Calorie country
I call it the US, or the USA. Sometimes without thinking I call it America, but again, thats degrading to the other American nations, its like saying they own the two continents, or we live on a planet run by Washinton DC..... just a minute.....