In fact it is nearly the same thing with the English who come from a group
of germanic speaking group the Angles... So it is not Eng but Angles (like
in geometry) ... you can see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles

2007/7/4, Bruce Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Being Independence Day and all

>
> >      Oh, so anyway, who was guy "Eng" you named the country after?
>
> And who was America named after ?
>
>
> Steve


The name was derived from the 
Latinized<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin>version of the explorer Amerigo
Vespucci <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci>'s name, *Americus
Vespucius*, in its feminine form, *America*, as the other continents all
have Latin feminine names.

Wikipedia and a memory for things historical.

Have a good 4th.

Bruce Reeves
Nortex Networks
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