[scouse]

Or should it be: The United States of Vespucci ?

[IronJack]

I was always taught that "America" was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian mapmaker. Who is this new Pretender?

[Smocker]

They forgot to mention that it was the Irish who told Columbus about the land on the other side of the ocean. Wasn't Amerigo Vespucci and Irishman?

Geez! all these years such misinformation!

[Cicero]

So, BBC lies just as much about the past as it does about the present. What a surprise.

Franz Kafka was originally responsible for the spelling "Amerika," which was popularized by hippie antiwar protesters.

Ironically, in Kafka's book Amerika is a wonderful place, a garden of Eden, a new land where immigrants can escape the growing totalitarianism of Europe.