Re: OT: Renaming the continents

Tim May scripsit:

> Possible, but suboptimum.  It's necessarily Old-world-centric, which
> is not necessarily a problem.  More importantly, New World sound like
> it should include Australia and Antarctica, which the Old World
> encountered only after
If we look at settlement rather than discovery, the New World was definitely
settled last, after all the other continents.  (The Pacific islands were
settled later, to be sure.)

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