On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:39:11 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Incorrect.  The term "President" was used in the continental congress
>> prior to the first US President.
> 
>   The term "president" was used for a lot of things way before the USA
>   was
> founded. My point was that it was never used as the title of the leader
> of a sovereign country.

Yes, and I was intending my writing to be read as "as the leader of a 
country".  Apparently the idea came from the president of cricket clubs.  
I wasn't saying that this was the *origin* of the word.

Jim

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