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
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