Jimmyland
According to some historians, the name America itself evolved from the latin version of Amerigo Vespucci’s name, Americus Vespucius. America is the feminine version of the Americus name. The Amerigo Vespucci Wikipedia article later explains that the name Americus/Amerigo might evolved from Emericus.
There is a hungarian name – Imre – which has been translated as Emeric, see Saint Emeric of Hungary.
Fact three, there has been a hungarian singer called Imre Zámbó. He was working in the US for some time, where his co-workers couldn’t pronounce his name, thus the similarly pronounced Jimmy (like Imi, small Imre) has been sticked to him.
Fun fact: eventually we could call America Jimmyland.
Appeared on 29 May 2006, 23:40
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