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I would say: Argentina: the country. Argentine: Adjetive for things like argentine music, argentine wine,argentine food, etc. Argentinean or Argentinian: Demonym for people, i.e. I am argentinean, argentinean are friendly people, Nationality: Argentinean. This means people "from" the country Argentina are argentinean.
It doesn't make sense. Like it wouldn't make sense to call Australia just Commonwealth. The Of is the important here. Is United States of America. Is like La Repubilca Argentina. The short title would be Argentina, because Republic is used to call all the republican countries.
From Wikipedia, . Columbus encountered the pineapple in 1493 on the Leeward island of Guadeloupe. He called it piña de Indes, meaning "pine of the Indians", and brought it back with him to Europe, thus making the pineapple the first bromeliad to leave the New World.
One idiom that people in the United States sometimes use to describe a person who possesses extensive, detailed knowledge of a particular subject is walking encyclopedia. Here is the entry for that term in Christine Amer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997):
2. Dictionary.com provides quite a few definitions for people, most relevantly: persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general. the entire body of persons who constitute a community, tribe, nation, or other group by virtue of a common culture, history, religion, or the like.
It is not only because we have always used it in letters and in commercial correspondence; it is not just traditions. "Dear" is a nice word, it is gentle and polite. It is not a word that could ever offend anybody. And it is certainly not formal, unless you consider formal the people you love or that you consider your friends, or the people you ...
In truth, think of collectives as singular plurals. They are handled and spelled as a singular, but remain plural. "People are" remains the correct form in usage. It is referring to a single collection of people. Some grammar guides and dictionaries state that pluralizing such collectives is incorrect.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. It is is most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but this is disputed: This is probably the most famous of apparently apocryphal remarks attributed to Lincoln.
"I and someone are interested" is grammatically correct. It is the convention in English that when you list several people including yourself, you put yourself last, so you really should say "Someone and I are interested." "Someone and I" is the subject of the sentence, so you should use the subjective case "I" rather than the objective "me".
But included in 'interest groups' are people who campaign on behalf of people who may consider they have suffered a common injustice, such as 'The Liverpool 96', or with a common aim in view e.g. for gay marriage, or against excessive press intrusion of people's private lives etc. A more informal phrase for 'interest group' is 'pressure group'.