In fact it is nearly the same thing with the English who come from a group of germanic speaking group the Angles... So it is not Eng but Angles (like in geometry) ... you can see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/7/4, Bruce Reeves <<a href="mailto:asterisk@nortex-networks.com">asterisk@nortex-networks.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Being Independence Day and all<br><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> Oh, so anyway, who was guy "Eng" you named the country after?
<br><br>And who was America named after ?<br><br><br>Steve</blockquote></span><div><br>The name was derived from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Latinized</a> version of the explorer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci" title="Amerigo Vespucci" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Amerigo Vespucci</a>'s name, <i>Americus Vespucius</i>, in its feminine form, <i>America</i>, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names.<br><br>Wikipedia and a memory for things historical.<br><br>Have a good 4th.
<br> <br></div></div>Bruce Reeves<br>Nortex Networks
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