How might a conservation biologist apply the theory of island biogeography in a national park
1 . Canadian English is an odd duck, a weird amalgam of American English and our British roots. 2  Canadian spelling keeps the 'u' in words like honour, colour and valour. 3  Canada switched over to the metric system decades ago, while the U.S. is one of the few countries that still use the imperial system.
Posts: 4,054. Well, the fact is that although there seems to be a bit of contradiction in it, we DO call people born in the USA Americans. Since no other country in North or South America contains the word America in its name, it seems to fit ok. Those folks from South America or North America call themselves by terms associated with their own contries-and that's what we do.