Talk:Pars pro toto

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[edit] inverse

"America (for the United States)" Is this pars pro toto? As far as I'm concerned, the USA are still a part of America and not the other way around. I don't know what you call this, but I'll remove this in a few days, if I'm not wrong.--Ruben 20:11, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

solved, it is called totum pro parte --C mon 21:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Is not the United States of America also a pars pro toto as the state of Hawaii forms no part of the American continent? Geographically, the state of Hawaii cannot be one of the 'United States of America'. Perhaps that great federal republic ought to be the United States of America and Polynesia.--jglees

Because America consists out of more than the U.S. (Namely Latin America and Canada) it can't be a pars pro toto. C mon 07:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Yankee"?

Should there be any mention of the fact that people in the American South, as a rule, do not like to be called "Yankees" or "Yanks"? That name, in the United States, is understood to refer to a Northerner, but foreigners often use it indiscriminately to describe anyone of U.S. origin. (I know it's not a strict geographical term, but it's along much the same lines.) Funnyhat 23:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dictionary term

Not to be a jerk but doesn't this article violate the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" policy? That is, is this article about a "thing" or just defining a term? --Mcorazao 05:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)