Re:Colombia’s Plan to Welcome Millions of Venezuelan Migrants
by the_watcher on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:59PM
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Americans make the mistake because there are major things named Columbia here, including a major river, the C in Washinton, DC, an Ivy League university, a state capitol, the C in CBS, a record label, a movie studio, a space shuttle that tragically exploded, and many more that I'm sure the Wikipedia page lists (I only typed out those I knew of off the top of my head).
The misspelling of the country is a pet peeve of mine as well, but I don't think it's confusing why people make it - they simply think it's spelled the same way as all of the other Columbia's they read about.
Re:Colombia’s Plan to Welcome Millions of Venezuelan Migrants
by siffland on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:54PM
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Point taken, I have updated my post with the correct spelling.
I am use to typing it that way for the District of Columbia. That is not an excuse, but that is why it is probably misspelled a lot.
Re:Colombia’s Plan to Welcome Millions of Venezuelan Migrants
by AlimJaffer on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:23PM
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Same here. As someone who lives in British Columbia, I always conflate the two.
> […] i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses
Just so you know, the English spelling is “Colombia” (O instead of U) [1].
If you say “Columbia” (U instead of O) you are talking about the historical female personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas [2]. I don’t know why people make this mistake so many times, even looking at this list [3] I cannot find any reference to “Columbia” as the name for the country.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia