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12. Strictly speaking that includes South America.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:17 PM
9 hrs ago

But words don't just have every possible definition all the time. Context and usus matter. Skip those and what's left is snark for the sake of annoying others and shutting down communication.

And everything in the Caribbean. However, that usage would exclude Guamanians and Hawaiians.

Oh, wait. Greenland's part of the North American tectonic plate, so it's part of North America.

Greenlanders are Americans!

Yeah, right.

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