Re: Two meanings in "American"

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Hi Douglass: Did you grow up in Canada? I grew up in Montreal, our
teachers were frequently English, and we were trained not on a negation,
but to be modest. "Blowing your own horn" was considered very bad form.
So when I came to the U.S. to live in my early 20's I was often confused
about how to present myself, since I quickly learned that Americans blew
their own horns routinely. Have you ever lived in the good old U.S.A.? Ruby.

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