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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Toby Hemenway wrote:
> I've stayed out of this thread since it's pretty OT, but I'll add this, 
> since Bob--whose posts I generally agree with and enjoy--avoided giving 
> the genesis of "Amerikan."
>
>     The reason I spell Amerikan this way is because I used to spell it this
>     way until the end of the Vietnam War as a way of not insulting the
>     other
>     people who live on the continent
>
>
> (It sure insults people in the US, though! ) Back in the Nixon era, as a 
> clever, angry college boy, I used the "Amerika" spelling, too. The Left 
> originally inserted the Germanic "k" to link the US gov't to the Nazis. 
> But:
>
>     Amerikan schools - it appears to me that if Amerikan kids

I've always wondered what the "k" implied and finally decided it was a 
takeoff on
a Russian spelling where lots of k's are used and that it was supposed to 
mean leftist or
socialist, perhaps short for Amerikanski or whatever. Never thought of the 
Nazi connection
though they were national socialists (about as much that as Stalinist Russia 
was a democratic republic
or a divine monarchy).

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