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2007-11-30 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
A Welsh guy - *not* Amerigo Vespucci. As pointed out on QI, if it was named after Amerigo Vespucci, it'd probably be called Vespuccia or similar.

Places are named after surnames (unless you're a king), it's actually more likely that America is named after Richard Amerik:

http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wale...ml#americaname
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content.../amerike.shtml
http://www.blurtit.com/q613801.html
Well one can post several links that say the opposite (i.e. that it was named after Amerigo Vespucci).
I think no one can claim he's right as we lost track of who really named America that way.

A link I found says that "America" was actually used to refer the southern part of the US, to be later extended to the northern part as well.
(the link is the italian version of the wikipedia site, even if they say that a citation is needed to support the fact).

So well.. we'll never know the truth
You might be right as you might be wrong.