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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 Technically speaking, one could never be, for example, a citizen of the Earth -- but we're all denizens of the Earth
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen . . .
OED has a note on citizen: The semantic development has been influenced by classical Latin cīvis (see civic adj ) It seems like the semantic drift in citizen, civilian, civic, etc from "city-dweller" to one with legal rights within any governed community involves both legal and military history
- Why isnt citizen spelled as citisen in British English?
Analyze does have the -ize -ise suffix, just a different spelling From the OED: "On Greek analogies the vb would have been analysize, Fr analysiser, of which analyser was practically a shortened form, since, though following the analogy of pairs like annexe, annexe-r, it rested chiefly on the fact that by form-assoc it appeared already to belong to the series of factitive vbs in -iser
- A citizen of eSwatini - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What should one call a citizen of eSwatini in English? A citizen of eSwatini is called a[n] _____ I can think of the following candidates: a liSwati, a Swati, an eSwatini, a Swazi I'm not asking for an invented word Just for the word that is appropriate now (after the country's name-change)
- Difference between voters, electorates and constituents
Here's my understanding: A voter is simply an individual person who votes, or potentially votes An electorate is a defined geographic area that votes for the outcome of a single seat, or a set of seats
- What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
USA "American" covers a lot more ground - Mexicans and Canadians are Americans, and some of them object strenuously to equating "American" to "citizen of the USA" Not to mention Brazilians, Ecuadoreans, etc , all of whom are Americans Plus, as a legal matter, the name of the country is not "America"
- 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
- Who came up with this quote: Thomas Paine or Dean Alfange?
I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed I refuse to barter incentive for a dole; I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of Utopia
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