https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn, the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to those 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territo.... The list of 45 includes territories. Greg ------------------------------------- On 11/19/2015 04:32 PM, Paul A wrote:
At 03:40 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote:
Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than a felony warranting a call-to-arms.
Very respectfully, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America> lists 45 countries (colourful table about 20% down the page)[1] including what "old-fashioned me" used to call "Central America" and "the Caribbean." North America is, at the very least, Canada, the USA, St Pierre et Miquelon and Greenland.
The phrase "Koha North America User's Group would like to invite agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting" is *NOT* a "linguistic peccadillo", it is an explicitly discriminatory invitation.
Paul [1] Including, btw, La Navasse which is seen by most historians as an anomalous US land-grab under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 which allows the US President to "consider as appertaining to the United States" any piece of real estate covered in ... guano.
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