> > > Tra "was there ever an OLD Zealand?" nio
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> > Yes, there was. Zeeland was Holland. When the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered this one, he called it Nieuw Zeeland.
> >
> > Brunnen-"we spell it wrong"G
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> We spell the name of our county wrong. It was named for the Earle of Loudoun and somehow it wound up without one of the u's. Loudon. I prefer the old English spelling.
> Howard

Then there's the story on how they named Plano, Texas, because they thought "plano" was Spanish for "plains".

-Faux "Cut-and-Shoot, Texas" Pas