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I suppose you want him to have an English dialect map that includes Spanish speaking countries? It might ease your sensibilities, but it would be meaninglesss.

While it must be truly invigorating to get the rush of moral superiority you feel by pointing out perceived racism, it is absurd nit-picking that allows you to arrive at your conclusion.

Every other nation in the Western Hemisphere has a name that allows the citizens to be uniquely identified: Mexican, Canadian, Haitian, Brazillian, Ecuadoran, etc. Tell me, what do you propose we call citizens of the United States of America, other than "Americans"? I once was the only American working at an international school. One time, and one time only, a young Spanish man from Madrid made a stink when I referred to myself as "American." The 2 Argentinians, the 1 Brazillian, and 3 Englishmen in attendance all rolled their eyes and collectively told him off with the same question I just asked you. It's absurd, it's over sensitive, and it screams out "Pay attention to me! I'm pointing out oppression!!"

The author doesn't try to cover AAVE because the vast majority of the African American population outside of the South emigrated FROM the South less than 3 generations ago. There's an entire field of study on AAVE, and its not his field. FYI, I'm from the south, and to most northerners, AAVE and "white" southern dialects sound extremely similar, to the point where a white Seattle teenager I encoutnered saying "yall" picked it up from the hip hop culture he was immersed in. It's not necessarily that AAVE is derived from white southern, its that the two dialects grew around each other, with rather extensive interaction between poor whites and black slaves in the rural south. I would say the influence is surely two way, and know for a fact that many of the words my family uses are African in origin.

Black people in the south (and north) speak many different dialects, some that would be completely omitted if black people were completely omitted. They, of course, exist on a continuum with historical (and current) white dialects. All American dialects exist on a continuum of historical and current British dialects, so could we just leave Americans out as a special field of study, even when studying Americans? As a black person (along with 12% of the population), with roots in this country from before there was a country here, I resent the implication that I am a special field of study that can be ignored when studying "Americans." Talking about recent immigrant dialects is a cop-out.

>it must be truly invigorating to get the rush of moral superiority you feel by pointing out perceived racism

Bashing people who point out possible moral failings in an enterprise as doing it in order to bask in a sense of moral superiority is about as intellectually vacuous as bashing people who point out logical or factual inconsistencies as elitist snobs or ivory tower eggheads. Shameful.

  Also, the map seems only to cover the United States. America extends up to the Arctic and down to Cape Horn.

The definition of a continent is not as universal as one might imagine. Where I grew up, I was taught that "North America" is a continent, "South America" is a continent, and "America" is a legitimate abbreviation for the USA, a country located on the continent of "North America".

In other locations, people are taught that "America" is a continent that stretches from Argentina/Chile to Canada. Someone from the USA who calls themselves 'American' appears arrogant to someone who believes that "America" is the continent composed of North American and South America.

Just keep in mind that the difference is simply due to regional education differences. (How many continents are there? Seems like a simple question, but the answer, 5,6, or 7, is mostly related to where you received your early education)

> Someone from the USA who calls themselves 'American' appears arrogant to someone who believes that "America" is the continent composed of North American and South America.

Genuine not rhetorical question: Instead of "American", what would be the preferred, less-arrogant way for a U.S. citizen to refer to oneself?

(I mean in normal conversation not border control; so presumably not "U.S. Citizen". And I mean seriously; so not "Arrogantian".)

USA-ian obviously.

Nobody refers to the union of North and South America as "America". It's, if anything, "The Americas".

To complain that it's confusing is a cop-out.

The "United States" could mean "The United States of America", but could also refer to the "United Mexican States" in Spanish (Estados Unidos Mexicanos vs. Estados Unidos de América).

There's Washington D.C. and Washington state. New York state and New York City. British Columbia and Colombia. Georgia the state, Georgia the country. Are both "Georgians"?

Words mean multiple things. This obviously comes as a shock to some people.

  Also, the map seems only to cover the United States. America extends up to the Arctic and down to Cape Horn.

It looks to me like the map includes Canada. The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the Americas where English is a majority language, so the title seems legitimate.

There's also the Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Belize, and Jamaica; where most of the population speak English or English-based creoles.

And if you count countries that have English as official language there are also Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Lucia. At least.

All combined they have a summed population of more than six million English-dialect-speaking people.

Including those as part of the Americas is certainly reasonably standard, but so is not including them (i.e. restricting the Americas to the mainland). I continue to see nothing problematic about the page title.

Well, in that case you'd need to include Belize and Guyana.

My comment was just a reply to the mention of there being only two English speaking countries in America/Americas. Not about the page title.

While both of those have English as an official language, it is not listed as a majority language for either (though both have an English-based Creole as a majority language so you could probably argue it either way).

AAVE is the answer you're looking for. I presume this is a separate field of linguistic study where one researcher wouldn't necessarily have domain knowledge. http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#Classical_Southern