America's name a pun?

[Sedericus]

i Found this to be an interesting read off the bbc news website.

discuss.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8328878.stm

 

[El Perro Finlandese]

Too long to read. Please tell me, how it's a pun?

 

[Ilex]

This is pretty old news. About half a millenia old.

 

[FrisianDude]

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.

 

[Sedericus]

Read it...i didn't post it for you to say it's too long and for me to tell you.

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. 

This is pretty old news. About half a millenia old.

your not wrong there lad, your not wrong there..

 

[Adorno]

It's named after Vespucci, and happens to be a pun.

 

[Gule]

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]

A play on words, a joke.

 

[Gule]

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".