Talk about obnoxious...

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RH Fun Fact: Vespucci didn't tag his name to the land. Waldseemüller named the New World 'America' in honor of Vespucci.
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Good tidbit Rhydd, thankee.

Jester's line of argument on that trivial point is irrelevant. The name given to a land is inherently cultural and political in basis.

Case in point: Are they Las Malvinas or The Falklands? Same rocks, different name based on the political/cultural frame of reference. Or should we ask the penguins, and make a complete farce of this whole exercise?

Using Jester's framework -- the requirement to go back an arbitrary number of centuries to get "the true name" of the land and its ex post facto application to its denizens -- I suppose Russia must renounce its name, once again call itself the Golden Horde, and now call themselves Hordians. :P

Wait a minute, is that anything like a Horadrim? :w00t:

Occhi