it's not so much about the english language it's about concepts and logic no i do not believe think know that i'm in the wrong here i wouldn't be talking about this if i thought i was wrong yeah right that would be pretty dumb puhleease and what would be supposedly encyclopedically wrong with using a phrase like u s citizen that's been a very accepted term to use has it not why would you or most editors want to revert that back out also why would you guys as encyclopedia admin s prefer to cater to the wide but wrong majority of people who lazily apply the wrong logic to a word rather than standing first with what's actually logically correct and not bending to the popular vote just because it's what happens to be what most people wrongly think is the right way to say something aren't encyclopedias there to show people what the real truth is well then why not with this simple terminology if i ask a canadian or mexican or brazilian or whatever if she was an american and she said no then despite what she thinks is her correct belief that so many other canadians mexicans brazilians errantly believe too that shows what popularity does to muddy up a fact she'd be wrong if canadians etc were to not be americans then how could they possibly belong to a continent called america