Originally Posted by
evansb
Re: HEMS driver comment
The southern North American continent is composed of two regions. These are Central America and the Caribbean. ... In contrast to the common definition of "North America", that which encompasses the whole continent, the term "North America" is also used to refer to Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Greenland.
Ummm, yeah, all that is true, but PPrune uses a unique definition of "North America". On PPrune, "North America" means United States of America. Don't believe me? Check it out. Take a look at the forum index: You have a "North America" forum, which taken by itself is ambiguous. But directly above it, you have a "Canada" forum (I always thought Canada was in North America, but oh well.) That leaves "North America" being the U.S. and Mexico for sure, and arguably Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, etc, etc, etc ...right? Well not so fast. Drop down a couple of lines and we find the "Caribbean and Latin America" forum. So apparently, Those countries aren't in North America either. By process of elimination we arrive at the inescapable conclusion that "North America" is identical with United States of America. (At least on PPrune.)