But the thing is titled "Getting to Know Americans", so why bother with an ugly sounding turn of words when you've already crossed that bridge?

I didn't think that "US Americans" was even correct when I posted - it doesn't sound at all right to my ears.

> Chilean, Canadian, Costa Rican grad students who would be annoyed at the implicit exclusion.

Only the ones with a chip on their shoulder.

I was about to lament that English lacks a short, euphonic, idiomatic word for "US-icans" / US citizens & residents / culturally US people / estadounidenses.

But then I remembered we do have such a word.

Yanks.

The proportion of "US Americans" who would self-describe as a "Yank" must be vanishingly small. I think the first rule about names is that the named person should recognize the results.

You would think so, but Christ never thought of himself as Christ; Hindu is a name made up by outsiders; and Germany sounds nothing like Deutschland.

Anyway I was just seeking compromise.

"Yank" doesn't really work either, sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#In_other_English-speakin...

You'll just have to live with the fact that English doesn't have a convenient word.

Even here in Italy, "americano" is much more common than statunitense.

Nobody says yanks besides australians. And they don't really do it that much.