[Verginius Rufus]

The name America was applied first to South America on a map published by Martin Waldseemueller...he had read Amerigo Vespucci's account of his voyages and thought Amerigo was the first European to set foot on the southern continent. This article provides no evidence that Waldseemueller had ever heard of this Welshman or that anyone in England started calling the land Cabot visited America before Waldseemueller suggested the name.

[Doctor Stochastic]

If America had been named for Amerike, why was the e changed to an a? Or why not Cabotland (acctent on the bot)?(Maybe Boston did have that name anyway.)