Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?
klu9@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I mean, “Yanks” is right there.
Or “septics”, if you wish to be politically correct.
/jk
Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.