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U-S-A-merican

Like the chant--USA! USA!--plus merican.

That's how I pronounce it.

We could ask George (who I suspect would deny having any authority to tell
others how they should pronounce it; but he might tell us how he does).

Cheers,
Rick

At 02:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Yeah, Rick, but how do you pronounce it?
>
> > Years ago, he came up with "USAmerican," which I often use and
> > quite like because they have a tendency to chant, "USA! USA!"
> > (especially at sporting events).
>
>Use-American, like Usenet?  An American by function?
>
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