USONIAN forever!

I write to urge the use of Usonian to mean "someone who lives in the USA."

The noun Usonia is formed from the first letters of the United States Of North America. Add the "-ian" suffix meaning "from this place" to make a very useful adjective.

Many writers of my acquaintance recognize this issue, and use USian to describe USA residents. Unfortunately, USian is hard to say. Usonian rolls readily off the tongue.

Why bother? This point was brought home to me while chatting in an English-language practice conversation with a visitor from Chile. He was dumbstruck—how dare these estadounidense claim ownership over all of America?

America, of course, begins way up in Nunavut, Canada, North America and extends all the way south to the Diego Ramírez islands in Chile, South America. Usonian is a more precise way to describe people from the United States.

You may have heard the word before: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Usonian house as an affordable architecture that responded to the width and openness of the US suburban. The first Wright Usonian house is just a mile from me.. While Wright is often credited with coining the term, the credit is actually due to Scottish immigrant James Duff Law, who wrote in 1903:

We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title "Americans" when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves. A much more euphonious word is "Usonia," and as it represents in a similar way the "United States of Northern Independent America " (a most important qualifying and accurately descriptive adjective being added) I am inclined to think it makes a perfect word and a dignified name to designate our land, our people and our nation — "Usonia," "Usonian" and "Usonians" sounding equally well. It has also to us Scots the added merit of making a good rhyme to Caledonia, and thus knitting more closely together both Usonians and Caledonians.

Here and There in Two Hemispheres

What say you! American? USian? Usonian? Terran?