[crazygringo]

First, it's not "America", it's "The Americas" -- we're talking about the two continents, right? The New World?

Second, that's the word we use in English. If you've lived here for millenia, you can use the appropriate word in your own language.

[amanaplanacanal]

Whether you count it as two continents or one depends on where you are from.

[mmooss]

Who counts them as one continent? That seems hard to argue geographically. I don't think a land bridge prevents them from being continents.

[crazygringo]

> The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Greece and many Romance-speaking countries—including Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent?wprov=sfti1#Number

All English-speaking countries count them as two continents though.

And in English, it's conventionally "the Americas" even if you believe it's a single continent.

Kind of like, we call it the Bahamas, not Bahama, even though it's one country. It's linguistic, not conceptual.

[mmooss]

Very interesting. I can't check the Greek-language citations; I'd love to hear from someone who has lived or gone to school in one of those countries.