USA or the USA

[Boris Tatarenko]

Hello.

My girlfriend found a book for me.


As you can see "United States of America" is written without "the". I guess it's incorrect. What would you say?
If it's incorrect there's nothing strange. We got a lot of such books. :-D

Thanks.

 

[bhaisahab]

Hello.

My girlfriend found a book for me.
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As you can see "United States of America" is written without "the". I guess it's incorrect. What would you say?
If it's incorrect there's nothing strange. We got a lot of such books. :-D

Thanks.

It should be "The United States of America".

 

[charliedeut]

Hello.

My girlfriend found a book for me.
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As you can see "United States of America" is written without "the". I guess it's incorrect. What would you say?
If it's incorrect there's nothing strange. We got a lot of such books. :-D

Thanks.

If you look closely, you will see the title is not the only "funny" thing in the cover! ;-)

PS: OK, here's a clue: just one of the USA's neighbors is there...

 

[bhaisahab]

If you look closely, you will see the title is not the only "funny" thing in the cover! ;-)

PS: OK, here's a clue: just one of the USA's neighbors is there...

Which neighbour would that be, Charlie?

 

[charliedeut]

Which neighbour would that be, Charlie?

I can only read "Canada" above the USA's northern border. In the South... All of Central America is gone!

 

[bhaisahab]

I can only read "Canada" above the USA's northern border. In the South... All of Central America is gone!

Oh, I see what you mean, Charlie.

 

[5jj]

Alaska appears to have become an island.

 

[Gillnetter]

Alaska appears to have become an island.

Alaska is usually set aside as a inset since it is not connected to the other states. Hawaii is treated the same way. I see no problem with the title of a book being "United States of America" - title sometimes are amusing. As far as the other countries, the book is not about Canada or Mexico. Central America is so far south it normally doesn't appear on most maps of the US.

 

[Amigos4]

Alaska appears to have become an island.

Alaska is usually set aside as a inset since it is not connected to the other states. Hawaii is treated the same way. I see no problem with the title of a book being "United States of America" - title sometimes are amusing. As far as the other countries, the book is not about Canada or Mexico. Central America is so far south it normally doesn't appear on most maps of the US.

I know my eyesight is pretty bad, but did we lose the real island of Hawaii? :shock:

 

[Gillnetter]

I know my eyesight is pretty bad, but did we lose the real island of Hawaii? :shock:

Well...I guess mine are going also. I hadn't noticed that South America is next to the US. I couldn't find any of the Hawaiian Islands either.

 

[Barb_D]

It's an example of when you take a whole map but you blow up the part you're talking about so it gets bigger, and therefore covers part of the rest of the map. Canada is there because they pulled the now-larger US up and south. The enlarged US covers Central America and the northern part of South America. This is actually a pretty common way to treat something on a map. If you did the same thing to, say, Kansas, you might find Missouri and/or Nebraska "missing."

I wonder if it pre-dates Hawaii being a state.

 

[SoothingDave]

The continental US has obviously been "blown up" out of its location, which explains why you only see part of Canada, and South American is right off the tip of Florida.

That doesn't explain why Hawaii is not shown if Alaska is. Both or neither should be shown as insets.

Edit: Just saw that Barb made those same points already.

 

[Amigos4]

I wonder if it pre-dates Hawaii being a state.

I think I see 50 stars on the flag! I think the publisher just ran out of space on the package!