I think about the alternate universe where they went with the mapmaker's last name and not his first name and now we all live in the United States of Vespugia and people are "Proud to be a Vespugian" and so forthhttps://twitter.com/CelticAnarchy/status/1301448481903718400 …
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Vesputia is badass and clearly the superior choice tbh.
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I'm imagining it as just three syllables, "ves-poo-sha"
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I never even considered where that name might've come from but that sounds like an absolutely amazing bit of history
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Yeah it's this whole thing -- an alternate name for America is "Columbia", and indeed many places in America and things associated with America are still named that today But even back in the 1500s people started saying Columbus didn't deserve the credit he got
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