[FrereeDoulley]

I know a LOT of people on this board are anal about how people refer to countries and individuals, especially when it comes to people referring to the Dominican Republic (DR) as the Dominican. The part that really confuses me is that most people that hate the DR being called "the Dominican" are ex-pats. This is a site dedicated solely to everything Domincan so it is obvious to me that when people say "the Dominican" we should all know to what country they are referring (regardles of the fact that there is also a country called Dominica). The dozens of posts about people correcting someone on such a technicality seems ridiculous. I know lots of Dominicans (who were born and raised there) who refer to the DR as "the Dominincan". That being said, when somone says they are from "America" I think anyone in the world would know where they were referring to. My point is, I wish people would stop nitpicking about the terminology used to refer to a place, be it the DR or America.