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- What is the difference between citizen and denizen
A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen . . .
Why is citizen used to describe an inhabitant of a country when the word is derived from the Latin for city (civitas) and originally meant a city dweller? Wouldn’t the nouns derived from ‘country
- Why isnt citizen spelled as citisen in British English?
28 There is a suffix that is written only as -ize in American English and often -ise in British English (but not always, as ShreevatsaR points out in the comments) This suffix attaches to a large number of words, thus the s z alternation shows up in a large number of words Citizen does not have the -ize -ise suffix
- single word requests - What is the demonym for a citizen of Niger . . .
12 If a citizen of Nigeria is a Nigerian, what is a citizen of Niger referred to as? The Wikipedia article on Niger and the online Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries say that the proper term is Nigerien, as Vogel612 points out below
- Is there a simple word for a person born of immigrants?
My friend's parents are both from Colombia, but he was born here in the U S , and I was wondering if there was a non-offensive term for somebody born of immigrants who is a native citizen
- Difference between voters, electorates and constituents
I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents " Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Sure, American can refer to a citizen of the United States, but we could also talk about the Americas, or the American continent (This is not unlike how man can refer to the male gender, or to humankind)
- the USA vs. the US - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U S versus USA versus U S A from Wikipedia: Manual of Style: In American and Canadian English, U S (with periods) is the dominant abbreviation for United States US (without periods) is more common in most other national forms of English Some major American guides to style, such as The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed ), now deprecate U S and
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