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I think it’s pretty obvious that by North America I meant Anglophone North America. I didn’t think I had to say that.
As for current usage, I don’t think a cite from 1949 is necessarily that useful, especially since we’d already proven it wrong before it was offered.
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I think it’s pretty obvious that I was responding to Askance. I didn’t think I had to say that.
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Wait, let me wipe the egg off my face first…
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Wait, let me wipe the egg off my face first…
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And what would you like for your entrée? 
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I think it’s pretty obvious that by North America I meant Anglophone North America. I didn’t think I had to say that.
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I was just giving you a way to get to your claimed total of 330m native English speakers in North America, as I could only get up to about 233 with the US and Canada. So maybe it was a typo?
I gave a cite that gave me 330 million people in the US and Canada, most of whom are presumably native; but the point is not that they’re native speakers, but that they use “entree” to mean “main course” regardless of when they learned English, because that’s how they get the right food at restaurants.
Another point from my good wife: there was no meat rationing in the US during WW1, although there were voluntary x-less days.