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語源

An acronym of the United States of North America, a 19th-century name for the United States of America, variously attributed to "a St. Louis professor" or "a Canadian, James P. Murray of Toronto".

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /juːˈsoʊnə/

固有名詞

Usona

1. (dated) The United States of America.
   • 1899 August 3, “German letter (Chemnitz, July 15, 1899)”, in American Wool and Cotton Reporter, volume 13, page 924 [24]:

     Usona (U. S. of A.), a land that looked like a lost land to us two years ago, was our biggest buyer, says a local expert.

   • 1905 July 15, “The New U.S. Pharmacopœia”, in The Pharmaceutical Journal, London, page 70:

     Everything of value recording during recent years by British pharmacists has been incorporated in the monographs, and it is interesting to notice how freely the pages of our own only commentary on the British Pharmacopœia—'Pharmacopedia,' to wit—have been drawn upon for information. But this was only to be expected, since our brethren in Usona are nothing if not careful and judicious compilers. Much original work has doubtless been done by American pharmacists engaged in the production of the new national medicine-book, but the volume is, nevertheless, best described as an excellent compilation.

使用する際の注意点

• Several authors at the turn of the 20th century advocated this as a word that should be used instead of the word American, which could also refer to citizens of any country in North, South, or Central America. It did not gain wide acceptance: “the natural impatience of a citizen of the United States at the idea of the word American referring to any one except himself and his fellow citizens choked off any chance of life the expression [Usona] might have had at that time.”

派生語

派生した語

• → Esperanto: Usono

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アナグラム

• Aouns, Osuna, suona