I’m an American!

If I want to refer to someone from the United States I say ‘American.’ Technically though, this applies to anyone from the American continents; Canadians are Americans as much as Argentinians as Merriam Webster points out:

English lacks a word for specifically referring to citizens of the United States, and the latter construction is desperately cumbersome. Perhaps we might consider the Spanish Estadounidense?

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