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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 364679, member: 4626&quot;]Official name is &quot;Los Estados Unidos de Mexico&quot; which literally translates to &quot;The United States of Mexico.&quot;&nbsp; However most people, even Mexicans themselves, commonly refer to it as just &quot;Mexico,&quot; similar to the way most people refer to the &quot;United States of America&quot; as just the &quot;United States&quot; or &quot;America.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s been similar arguments here about &quot;penny&quot; vs. &quot;cent.&quot;&nbsp; It all boils down to the fact that common linguistic convention does not always follow strict official defintions.&nbsp; Deal with it; that&#039;s just the reality of language... words mean what they do because of the way people use them.&nbsp; Dictionaries reflect the conventional ways are used... they do not set the conventions.&nbsp; General consensus is what sets the conventional meanings of words, and they can, and do, change constantly.</p><p><br /></p><p>This all probably has little to do with the original post, but since my reaction to the OP is just read what you want and ignore anything else, I&#039;m sure anyone who is bothered by that will just igonre it anyway lol...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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