Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Fastfission,
And not to get on Georgia (the country's) bad side, but the state of Georgia actually has almost twice as many people living in it as the country does.
Which means that if someone says "My grandmother was born in Georgia", in English, and without any other context, you probably are correct in assuming they mean the U.S. state and not the country, just based on the numbers alone.
Err ... maybe in America (I have noticed Americans don't seem to see the need to specify nationality, presumably because anyone important is from the USA).
If an Australian said "my grandmother was born in Georgia", they would usually mean the country. Otherwise, they'd say "my grandmother was born in Georgia ... you know, in America".
Yeah, wot he said.