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Our ranch movers were still editing this endless document and

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the key phrase here is american president of the us

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got it So what We're going to find it down

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in the writing here and we're just cruising away looking

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looking looking oh there it is okay because i have

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to say that president is coming on time are running

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on schedule We'd like washington solitude for not only the

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rest of that event but many other also office by

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american president of the us weird phrasing their president of

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the us but all right so we're going to try

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to figure out what the better answer is to be

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here on we're thinking out loud Well there's no need

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to say american and us since they both referred to

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the same thing right that's kind of like saying a

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clueless congressman sorry just kidding that we love you guys

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these days so just so everyone knows that we're not

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talking about american presidents of student government or american presidents

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of the bowling club it's best to say us presidents

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which on top of being clear also avoids adding a

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third of to the sentence right We're dieting down jenny

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Craig ing They're so great answer is just us presidents

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that's How read as is the sentences redundant american presidents

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Yeah it's true but us is more accurate since american

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presidents could technically be presidents of any other country in

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north or south america Just removing the word american leaves

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the sentence with a third of which in our book

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well is at least one of too many So that's

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it u s presidents i solemnly swear it's us presidents

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