From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-22 10:10:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsengine.sol.net!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.54!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C9B7394.3040607@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:10:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.36.71 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1016820625 12.86.36.71 (Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:10:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:10:25 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21551 Date: 2002-03-22T18:10:25+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:44:30 GMT, Pat Rogers wrote: > >>For that matter, in the UK we are called "Yanks" (not that the UK is part of >>Europe :-). >> > > Huh? What continent is UK part of? Politically or geographically? Last I heard, the UK was a member of the EU. Many Atlases and geographical texts include Greenland as part of North America. Similar logic would include the British Isles as part of Europe. Jim Rogers