New evidence of Viking life in America?

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you're looking for the spelling of an Italian name from a Spanish site? sorry, but this annoys me. the Spanish is not the same as Italian. far from it.

those idiots can't spell/pronounce anything originating outside their natural borders so the rest of us have to accommodate them and have our beautiful names mutilated. fuck that.

PS. the English wikipedia hasn't even heard of 'Américo Vespucio' . nobody calls him like that except the Spanish. i'm sure the Russians have their own spelling of the man's name as well. should we start going by that as well? by all means, bend over backwards for people who can't read a simple name in Latin letters.

the man was Italian, and his name is Italian. i don't care what the Spanish think they have the right to say about it.

Thank you for placing on me and the rest of the Spanish speaking population such lovely adjectives.

Why is it that the continent is called "America" and not "Ameriga", one can question.

Could it be perhaps that the Latinized form Americus and thus the Latinized name Americus Vespucius were more prevalent in lore and formal names than the original Italian? Could it be then, that Spanish derives the name Américo Vespucio from that?

I do wonder. You should know, though, Mr. Europe.

But, if that is so, you can direct your usual irrational anger towards the parent language from trumping over Italian and not towards Spanish speaking folks.

Of course, you can also blame it on Spain colonizing much more of the world than Italy ever managed (oh wait, Italy didn't even exist back then, oops), rendering the 470 million current native Spanish speakers in existence all of whom know the name Américo Vespucio vs the more modest 65 million Italians ever suffering from having their cities and names all called differently.

Have you noticed how Anglo-speakers almost never anglicize Spanish location names, pronunciation aside? And instead you peeps get Rome and Naples and Milan and Venice? (the nerve!). Oh the shame on poor Italians.