• azi@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Columbia, from Columbus, has always been a common poetic name for the US and it’s this that the ship is named after. The name of BC is one of many on the continent that ultimately derives from Columbus

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      4 months ago

      Sure if you stretch it. But BC wasn’t named aftet Columbus “discovering” it. Changing the name to remove a a non-connection is just putting glitter on shit