Re: OT: Renaming the continents
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 4:38 |
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Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Muke Tever wrote:
> > The last time this thread came around, "the World Island" was found for
> > Eurafrasia and "the New World Island" for the Americas.
The WI is a 19th-century geopolitical term (calqued from German), and
AFAIK the NWI was invented by Isaac Asimov in one of his F&SF essays.
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