"I said, ‘Sundar, I’m thinking of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you handle it?’
“‘No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it,’ he said, ‘Oceans are different, sir. They cover a lot of - really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.’”
The US president later said he would “probably pass” and keep the name Atlantic, before saying, “We’re going to call it the American Ocean”.
To start with, the naming of America is an embarrassment.
Vespucci’s legacy is better than being named after Columbus, who sucked a great deal.
Right, as long as it isn’t a native name, I guess.
“Better” is a strong term for a slave-owning colonizer. “Less awful” is more accurate
AFAIK Columbus was awful, even accounting for the people of his time. I don’t know anything about Vespucci though.
America isn’t named after Columbus. A German cartographer in the 1500 named America as such to honer Amerigo Vespucci who originally “discovered” the new world. So it kind of is Vespucci’s legacy that named it ?
Isn’t that what I wrote?
I must have misinterpreted your comment as meaning that America is named after Columbus rather than Amerigo, bear with me I have yet to drink my coffee this morning…