Calling Canadians...

[Thunderpunt]

Just a quick question; Can you be described as North Americans?

Im married to one and he would say yes technically they are North American but he prefers Canadian!

I'm Canadian but lived for part of my childhood in the US so I often say I'm from North America.

Ah ok - thanks. Just reading an article on BBC news (rugby sorry ) and saw the Canadian team described at North Americans, wasn't sure if they'd cocked up or I'd got it wrong. Seems I got it wrong!

Also on rugby, they described Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales as the 'home teams'. Think it was BBC too.

I'm Canadian and when I was kid I remember telling a cousin in the UK that I hoped they could come visit us in America, and my mom told me I couldn't use that term with British people. But to me, I lived in the Americas, specifically North America. The country below us was the United States, we did not call it America.

Like a previous OP I ended up to moving to the US in late childhood and now say, "In North America we..." to British people, for lack of a better term (obviously there are lots of other countries in North America).