The accepted English demonym is American, and it has been for the last 200 years. Did you think you would be misunderstood if you said American?<p>The USA is the only country in the world with the word America in the name. Part of the world does consider North and South America to be one continent, but most of the English speaking world does not. Therefore in English there is no ambiguity when referring to someone as an American.<p>You&#x27;ll also note that no one has any issue with Australians calling themselves Australian, despite the fact that Australia is not the only country on the Australian continent.