Where does the word 'America' in 'The united states of America' originate?
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Amerigo Vespuci drew one of the first US maps.
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The word soccer comes came from "assoc.", which is an abbreviated version of "association football".\n\n\n"From alteration of assoc., abbreviation of association football".
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There are many American slang words. They can vary in meaning depending on region. Try this site:\nhttp://www.manythings.org/slang/\nAlso, try http://www.urbandictionary.com/ though be warned that it's unfiltered, so a lot of it is rather unclean.
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the united states of america.
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Bank of America?  America is usually capitalized, being the name of a continent.
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Because our country's whole name is "The United States of AMERICA"  and also because we are the dominating force in all of the Americas.\n\nBut not everyone calls it "America" outside of the US.  It is often frequently called "The States."\n\nMost of the time we're just called "Those Terrorists" lol
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Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States dating from the War of 1812. Common folklore holds that his origins trace back to soldiers stationed in upstate New York, who would receive barrels of meat stamped with the initials U.S. The soldiers jokingly referred to it as the initials of the meat supplier, Uncle Samuel Wilson, of Troy, New York. The 87th United States Congress adopted the following resolution on September 15, 1961: "Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives that the Congress salutes Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's National symbol of Uncle Sam." A monument marks his birthplace in Arlington, Massachusetts. However, counter-arguments to this theory have been raised by some (for example, see Cecil Adams' article at The Straight Dope) so the precise origin of the term may never be proven.
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<The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to citizens of the United States, particularly those Americans from the U.S. Northeast. \n\nHistory\nOrigins\nThe origin of the term is disputed. Widely held theories claim that it originated from the Dutch in old New Amsterdam (today known as New York) in the Mid-Atlantic States. It then was adopted by the British as a pejorative for (Northern) colonists. The origin was likely to be either the phrase Jan Kees ("John Cornelius") (two very common dutch names); Jan Kaas, meaning "John Cheese", a generic insult of the Dutch; or perhaps Janneke, the diminutive form of the name Jan. The latter is particularily plausible since "Janneke" is essentially the Dutch equivalent of "Jonny" (although today it is used as a girl's name; compare the French Jeannette). Dutch traders along the waterways near New York used the name Janneke as a diminutive for the English settlers, since the name "John" was very prevalent at the time. \nAnother theory (deprecated by most authorities) holds that it originated among a group of Indians on the eastern seaboard of North America. They were unable to pronounce the word "English", rendering it as "yengis" or "yengeese." This later became simplified to "Yankees". This theory is not widely held, since convincing records of the tribe and their mispronunciation of English have not been produced. There are several other folk and humorous etymologies for the word.\n\nOne influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song Yankee Doodle, which was popular at the time of the American War for Independence. Though the British intended to insult the colonials with the song, following the Battle of Concord, it was adopted by Americans as a proud retort.\n\nAn early use of the term outside the U.S. was in the creation of Sam Slick, the "Yankee Clockmaker," in a column in a newspaper in Halifax, Canada in 1835. The character was a plain-talking American who served to mock both Canadian and American customs of that era. The stories were published in a book titled The Clockmaker, in 1836. The book was popular in Canada, the U.S., and the United Kingdom.\n\nThe American Civil War\nThe use of the term was highly significant in the context of the American Civil War. It was used to refer to the soldiers and residents of the northern United States including the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states. The term also referred to other border-states and African-American troops who fought for the Union.
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The United States of America
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If you were educated in Mexico then you're taught that America is a continent, named after Americo Vespucci the Italian mapper.  Also Vespucci didn't discover the U.S.A.  It didn't even exist when he was around, and he never even set foot on present day U.S. territory which is all taken from its indigenous people in any event.  \n  Both Mexico and the U.S. are in North America. People of the United States are norteamericanos or estadounidenses, i.e., northamericans and unitedstatsians.  \n  However if you're educated in Gringolandia, and under people like George W. Bush, then America means exclusively the United States because of the 18th century doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Remember that? "It's the White Anglo Saxon's Destiny to spread his superior civilization over people not industrious or intelligent enough to make it prosper." There were a lot of quotes like that in 18th century newspapers.
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Well English...Started from Anglo-Saxon.Some words are borrowd or adopted. Some were created by accident.
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People identify themselves with their proper country name, not their continent's name. For example, British, German, French, not European (though this term is gaining broader use with the implementation of the EU). Or Japanese, Chinese, Korean, not Asian (Country origin compared with general ethnicity).\n\nSince the United States is the only country in either North or South America with the term "America" in it's proper country name, that term has been used as short hand to refer to anyone who is a citizen of the United States of America. This may change, however, as the world switches from individual country economics & politics to continental economics & politics.
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Use of the word American\n\nWhether usage of America or the Americas is preferred, many people living in the Americas refer to themselves as American. However, most of the English-speaking world (including Canada), use the word to refer solely to a citizen or resident of the United States of America. This may be due, at least in part, to the fact that the phrase "United States" does not easily translate into an adjective or descriptive noun in English. While Spanish-speaking peoples in Latin America use the word estadounidense (literally, "United-States-ian" or "of the United States"), calling someone a "United States-man" or "United States'er" or other such constructions sound awkward in English. This has led to the use of the word "American". Nevertheless, calling a U.S. citizen simply americano or americana in Spanish is considered offensive in some areas of Latin America. Some Latin Americans, however, will use "americano" or "americana" to refer to people from the United States in colloquial speech while still considering themselves "American", just as Germans or Spaniards would consider themselves "European".
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I'm a citizen of the US.  When I go overseas (mainly to Europe), I always say I am from the "States."  However, Europeans overwhelmingly refer to US citizens as "Americans" or the country of the US as "America."\n\nIt's isn't US citizens calling their country "America."  It's Europeans, from what I've seen!
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The term "united States of America" was first used officially in the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776. On November 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first of which stated "The Stile [sic] of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" The name was originally proposed by Thomas Paine.
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I found this on line,\n\n"Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions -- and More than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases" by Hugh Rawson (toExcel, Iuniverse.com, 1994, 2000). This reference has some new information on the origins listed here (new information in parenthesis), new origins and what could be the actual origin. \n\n: : 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War. \n: : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum. \n: : 3. Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials. \n: : 4. OK stands for "all correct" or the illiterate phrase "Orl Korrect." \n: : 5. U.S. President Martin Van Buren's nickname "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. He was a native of Kinderhook, N.Y.\n: : 6. Choctaw word "okeh," (or "hoke") meaning "indeed" (or "It is so.")\n: : 7. Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes." (Or "och aye," meaning "okay.")\n: : 8. From the French maritime phrase "au quai" meaning "at dock", and therefore at last safe from the ravages of the open sea.\n: : 9. '0 killed' - the report of the night's death toll during the First World War. \n: : 10. All clear after the shoot-out at O.K. Corral. \n: : 11. Instruments calibrated at an Observatory at Kew had, affixed to them, a stamp, or impression, to authenticate that calibration. This stamp was O K - Observatory Kew. \n\n: : New origins from Mr. Rawson's book:\n: : 12. The abbreviation is for Oberst Kommandant, German for "Colonel in Command," used by either -- take your pick -- a General Schliessen or Baron von Steuben when initialing letters and orders during the American Revolution.\n: : 13. It comes from the name of a freight agent, Obadiah Kelly, whose initials were widely disseminated on bills of lading.\n: : 14. The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.\n: : 15. It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords. \n: : 16. From a misreading of "Order Recorded" on official documents.\n: : 17. Or from Finnish "oikea," correct.\n: : 18. From the Greek "olla," all, plus "Kalla," good.\n\n: : Professor Allen Walker Read of Columbia University, "finally unveiled its (O.K.'s) origins in a series of magisterial articles in 'American Speech' in 1963 and 1964.What Professor Read discovered was that the abbreviation arose in a humorous manner at a time when Americans were indulging in a great deal of wordplay, including abbreviations, acronyms, puns and intentional mispronunciations and misspellings. The earliest example of O.K. that he unearthed (and it is so far still the oldest known specimen) is from the Boston 'Morning Post' of March 23, 1839. It appears in connection with a note by the paper's editor, Charles Gordon Greene, about a visit to New York of some members of the local Anti-Bell-Ringing Society. (The A.B.R.S., as it was usually known, was itself something of a joke, having been formed the previous year to oppose -- its name to the contrary -- an ordinance of the Boston Common Council against ringing dinner bells.) In an aside, Mr. Greene suggested that if the Bostonians were to return home via Providence, they might be greeted by one of his rivals, the editor of that city's 'Journal,' who 'would have the 'contribution box,' et ceteras, o.k. -- all correct -- and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.'.Thus, it appears that O.K. was invented, possibly by Greene, as an abbreviation of the jocular 'Oll' or perhaps 'Orl korrect,' meaning "All right.' This explanation would seem farfetched, except for Read's finding that it dovetai
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Because it origianally came from rugby football.  Yes we changed the rules but kept the name the same.\nBoth American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football.\n\nThe word "football", when used in reference to a specific game can mean any one of those described above. Because of this, much friendly controversy has occurred over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the English-speaking world. Most often, the word "football" is used to refer to the code of football that is considered dominant within a particular region.\n\nIn most English-speaking countries, the word "football" usually refers to Association football, also known as "soccer" (the name was originally a slang abbreviation of Association). Of the 45 national FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, only three (Canada, Samoa and the United States) use "soccer" in their name, while the rest use football (although the Samoan Federation actually uses both). However, in some countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, use of the word "football" by soccer bodies is a recent change (or a reversion to a long-abandoned name) and has been controversial.