@tofugolem @jnahorny @angelastella @randahl I hear they work-shopped "Union of a lot of, but not all of the countries of Europe" but the acronym was too hard to paint on stuff. Meanwhile nobody refers to the the EU as "Europe" in casual conversation. People do refer to The United States of America as "America." Doesn't bother me, but ... privilege - If I lived in south America, I'd be moderately annoyed if those nosey polluting idiots up north kept insisting they are America.