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Re: OT: Renaming the continents

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 4:38
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. -- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel. jcowan@reutershealth.com I could not. --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan