RE: the united States of America. .. I think is most proper.
So, we should really be called the uSA?
In text though, I think we are the united ... as joined together, States of America.
I read somewhere here in FR ... oh hell .. must'a been "98 or '99, a pretty interesting thread about the corporation of the (all caps) USA as opposed to the union of individual states .. uSA.That thread prompted another thread (or more) of the fringe and eagle on the top of the flag in a court room ... something about admiralty and all that.
Maybe THIS thread could pick up on some o'dat and refresh my failing memory.
And if there was anything TO those threads ... perhaps we should be informed ... eh?