"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
...

The Oxford English Dictionary and the _Memoirs_ of Sir Robert Laird
Borden, Prime Minister of Canada during the Great War..

From the OED, "American... sb. 2. A native of America of European
descent, esp. a citizen of the United States."

So it is not restricted solely to citizens of the U.S. Borden's
_Memoirs_ shows that Canadians persisted in thinking of themselves as
Americans too even 60 years after Confederation (he was writing in the
1930s of exchanges at the Imperial War Cabinet during the Great War).


Well, I guess they got it wrong then.

Not Pygmalion likely.
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Andrew Chaplin
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