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RE: SteemitBoard World Cup Contest - Results of day 4
I'm crying here @steemitboard @arcange
Colombia is a country in the world cup.
Columbia is a region in canada and other parts of the british empire. If you say columbia in spanish it sounds ridiculous. Help a brother out.
Now all the people that cant read to stop comenting have learned the wrong spelling!
Damn, small typo, big differences ...
Fixed! Thanks for notifying and educating us @ecoinstant
Thank you! Its very a common mistake, they come from the very same name: Colón. Thats the sailor Columbus in your history books, they seemed to translate names in that age in europe, but where he was hired for his famous voyage, Spain, he was actually known as Cristóbal Colón. ;p
This article was our passive-agressive way to get western jouralists to notice the difference during the recent peace process.