America's name a pun?

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Don Doggy 说:
Too long to read. Please tell me, how it's a pun?
There's more. The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a tip of the hat to Amerigo Vespucci but also a multilingual pun that can mean both "born new" and "no-place-land" - a playful coinage that seems to have inspired Sir Thomas More to invent his new world across the ocean, one meaning of which was also "no-place": Utopia.
 
Read it...i didn't post it for you to say it's too long and for me to tell you.

FrisianDude 说:
Don Doggy 说:
Too long to read. Please tell me, how it's a pun?
There's more. The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a tip of the hat to Amerigo Vespucci but also a multilingual pun that can mean both "born new" and "no-place-land" - a playful coinage that seems to have inspired Sir Thomas More to invent his new world across the ocean, one meaning of which was also "no-place": Utopia.

at least someone read it.  :lol:

Ilex 说:
This is pretty old news. About half a millenia old.

your not wrong there lad, your not wrong there..
 
Well, I read the whole article, and the comments at the bottom. The problem is, in this whole text there is only one word i do not know, "pun". What does it mean?
 
Austupaio 说:
A play on words, a joke.

Aha, thank you.

There are several theories about the name presented a the bottom of the page, I guess we will never know the truth.

It would be funny though if it was a "pun".
 
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