[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Philip Welch]

On Apr 11, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> If the Americans had done the right thing and called it New Georgia to
> follow the pattern that was started with Hampshire, York and Jersey we
> wouldn't be having this problem.  Nobody complains about the name  
> South
> Georgia except perhaps the Argentinians.

Georgia wasn't named after the country of Georgia, it was named after  
King George II.

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Philip L. Welch
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