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ON LANGUAGE: Readers dig deep to find 'United States of America'
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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July 5, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright 1998 Sunday Gazette-Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ON THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY weekend, it is fitting and timely to ask:
Who coined the name United States of America?
In the year before independence, many in the colonies went with
the name used by Benjamin Franklin in his July 1775 draft of an
articles of confederation: United Colonies of North America. Another
name, however, most famously appeared in print on July 4, 1776, in
the Declaration of Independence, which was drafted by a committee
that assigned the task to Thomas Jefferson: its last paragraph
referred to "the Representatives of the United States of America, in
General Congress Assembled."
In our first exploration of this mystery a few months ago, it was
reported that the widely ...
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