2014年3月21日 · The Associated Press Stylebook (2006), however, accepts both U.S. and USA as nouns, and seemingly views them as equally valid designations: U.S. The abbreviation is acceptable as a noun or adjective for Unites States. USA No periods in the abbreviated form for United States of America.

In other cases, USA was used in a company name (e.g. T-Mobile USA), an organisation name (e.g. Doctors Without Borders USA), or the name of a festival (e.g. Folkmoot USA Festival). I have also found sentences similarly to the following in used by the USA Today, when I guess they short USA Today with USA.

2016年10月18日 · USA is an abbreviation for United States of America, and the is used because the proper noun is a noun phrase whose main noun is the ordinary noun States. The definite article is also used in other country names (and their abbreviations) that are phrases made from ordinary nouns, such as the United Kingdom or the People's Republic of China .

2014年8月3日 · I personally use the US when speaking about the country in general, the States when talking to someone overseas (about coming over, for instance), and rarely — or never the USA. However, I think generally, most people use the US in conversation. The only time I ever hear people use the USA is when they say it emphatically and patriotically.

2023年7月3日 · Both Made in USA or Made in the USA are fine in that regard, interpreted to mean Manufactured in the United States of America. You can find examples of other countries, as well, e.g. Made in ROC/Made in PRC for goods from the Republic of China (Taiwan) and from the People's Republic of China respectively.

"Made in USA" and "Made in the USA" are same in its meaning but has marketing strategy and significance. When a consumer sees a product is "made in the USA" they perceive this as higher quality and "THE" is stressing word its an assurance to customers about the complete manufacturing of the product in USA.

On the one side, the USA is just one country. Logic says it should be, then, singular, just like the United Kingdom is. Example: The USA owns this domain. On the other side, if I however expand "the USA" to "the United States of America", I'd tend towards using plural — the noun the verb agrees with, "States," is definitely plural. Example:

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Another word with radically different connotations in British and American English is 'fag'. In England, it is a colloquial term for a cigarette; in the USA, it is a very derogatory term for homosexual. –

Contemporary usage is unitalicized ‘v.’, although there is a new tendency to use ‘vs.’ in the US press. This is exemplified by an article in the New York Daily News of May 16th, 2015, in which the headline is “Brown vs. Board of Ed. decision…” but the (modern) caption to an original 1954 photo on the same page is “Brown v.