MSN: Citizen journalist showed us ordinary people are in fact extraordinary | Letters to the Editor
Citizen journalist showed us ordinary people are in fact extraordinary | Letters to the Editor
Also see Can I use “US-American” to disambiguate “American”? If not, what can I use? and Is ‘USAers’ just an ordinary English word today? As a broad rule, United States of America is essentially never used attributively— you are a U.S. citizen, a United States citizen, or an American citizen.
My sincere thanks to The Citizen for the “Long Story” article. This was a bittersweet read as it made me happy to see the recognition of how good and valid journalism is represented, but sad to see ...
Why is citizen used to describe an inhabitant of a country when the word is derived from the Latin for city (civitas) and originally meant a city dweller? Wouldn’t the nouns derived from ‘country...
etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen ...
A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States. A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there.
28 There is a suffix that is written only as -ize in American English and often -ise in British English (but not always, as ShreevatsaR points out in the comments). This suffix attaches to a large number of words, thus the s/z alternation shows up in a large number of words. Citizen does not have the -ize/-ise suffix.