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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Daily linguistic tidbit: etymology of 'America'
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 20:15:59 EST
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> 
> What I was taught was that Americo was the person who saw land for the first
> time in the expedition with Columbus. While Columbus was in "La Santa Maria",
> one of the three ships, Americo was in "La nin~a" ( tilde on top of 'n' ).
> He was the 'actual' discoverer of this continent, eventhough Columbus is
> credited by virtue of being the captain of the expedition.
> 
This is wrong.  I don't know if Vespucci ever left Italy, but he was not
on Columbus's first voyage