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> Columbia's

Colombia.

I correct this at 80% of coffee shops I go to. Yeah, I’m that guy.

I went to Colombia in the early 2000s and adored it (I’m British), so this gets my goat.

No reason to get upset over language conventions. There are many countries in which Colombia is refered to as Columbia (mostly phonetically). Same for the US: most countries refer to it simply as America. There are at least two countries which can be refered to as Congo. Beijing is refered to as Peking in old literature and in many european countries as well.

But if there was a famous guy called Congu who was so famous people had named territories elsewhere after him and he had his own clothing label to boot -- ensuring that his name was foremost in the popular psyche -- then it wouldn't change the fact that if one called 'Congo' 'Congu', one would have made a simple spelling error.

If I was a resident of Congo, I would appreciate it when people corrected this error. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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