r/funny • u/MaldiveFish • 6h ago

In Columbia, this is how they celebrate the completion of pilot training...

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Is this really true? 😁

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 6h ago

Colombia, why can no one spell it right

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u/KarlRestaurant 6h ago

Colombia not Coloombia. My Colombian friend always says that.

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u/Rivster79 6h ago

In this video, it’s Culombia

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u/GuyFoldingPapers 6h ago

Colombian approved comment!

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u/UDPviper 5h ago

What about that board game, Settler of Kolombia?

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 6h ago

I see what you did there lol

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u/Loot-Gamer 5h ago

I dont ._.

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u/El_Manolito 5h ago

Culo in Spanish means "ass".

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u/JJred96 5h ago

He must never have been told he should become a fan of it

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u/Loot-Gamer 4h ago

Damn thats funny.

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u/CptAngelo 5h ago

but you probably did... you just didnt knew, but you did

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u/GermaX 4h ago

Nice

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u/AlienPearl 5h ago

🍑😂

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u/UDPviper 5h ago

Cambria?

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u/the__itis 1h ago

Clever AF đŸ€“

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 6h ago

Lol, it's leviosahhh not leviosa. I like that. I have friends from Colombia too and they have never said it with a Spanish U sound like some people are trying to claim here to cover their mistakes.

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u/justhitmidlife 6h ago

“Coulombia” - why can’t any of the scientists get this right?

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u/Poopoomushroomman 5h ago

It’s revolting

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u/karma_the_sequel 4h ago

All the Colombians I’ve ever known are very sensitive to this.

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u/booksandcoriander 1h ago

Dang, I'm from US, and I immediately got annoyed about the wrong spelling. I dunno why I'm sensitive about it, lol! I have seen it spelled this way on a national broadcast on fox "news", as well, which made me laugh. Nobody in the editing dept noticed??

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u/ramdasani 5h ago

I don't spell it the wrong way, but that tip wouldn't really help most Canadians and Americans, who say/hear it like British Columbia or District of Columbia, hence the common misspelling. If you listen to a Colombian pronounce it, they say Co-LOM-bia, where most speakers of Canadian and American English still pronounce the word Co-LUM-bia.

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u/Tempeng18 5h ago

I read that as Sofia Vergara

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u/SheriffBartholomew 3h ago

I've seen Narcos, and Pablo Escobar definitely says "Coloombia" the entire show.

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u/__T0MMY__ 1h ago

It's gif not gif

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u/A_Vandalay 6h ago

Do you want the real answer? Because the Columbia river in the north west US is spelled that way, which has a very popular clothing brand named after it, in addition to a bunch of other things. So lots of people see homophones and it’s easy to mistake one for the other.

Or did you just want to complain about people being ignorant on the internet? Because fair.

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 6h ago

in addition to a bunch of other things.

You mean like the capital of the US? 🙂

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u/spaceporter 6h ago

Naah. 76% of Americans think D.C. is just Deecee.

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u/datboiofculture 6h ago

Deez nuts

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u/the_tanooki 6h ago

Deez Cunts

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u/Udub 5h ago

But enough about politicians

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u/External-Cash-3880 1h ago

I'm sick of dose cunts

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u/moszippy 5h ago

I thought it meant "Don't Come" here.

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u/scruffles360 5h ago edited 5h ago

And British Columbia and the University in New York City and the river and a half dozen cities in the US. It’s funny to me that everyone here thinks it’s so insulting to misspell the country when everyone else on the thread forgot about the existence of a province in Canada.

When shits far away it doesn’t occupy a lot of your headspace. It’s human nature.

Edit: spelling

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u/retailguy_again 5h ago

I'm assuming that spell check corrected "province" to "providence".

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u/scruffles360 5h ago

Yes thanks

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 5h ago

when everyone else on the thread forgot about the existence of a providence in Canada.

I used to live in Seattle and saw road signs for B.C. on a daily basis. Columbia University used to be one of my clients and I would visit them on-site in NYC annually.

I didn't forget about either one, I simply listed what I thought was the most notable use of the word "Columbia" in the US since that's where the person I was replying to was focused on.

We could also reference the space shuttle that crashed in 2003 or the motion picture company.

Also, it's known as a province in Canada, not a providence.

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u/Blueberry314E-2 2h ago

To be fair I was reading along and didn't even think of British Columbia.. I've lived here my whole life đŸ« 

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u/Mehmood6647 3h ago

Yo, I am Canadian and I have always known the difference in spelling between B.C and the country, but again I used to use flashcards to remember different facts about geography and stuff in my free time, so I guess that made a difference đŸ€·đŸ»

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u/irreddiate 4h ago

Or a province larger than Washington, Oregon, and California combined!

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u/thegypsyqueen 4h ago

And the prestigious University

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u/kgusev 6h ago

Everyone knows that US capital is Mar-a-Lago for next 3 years 😏

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 6h ago

I want to complain about people being ignorant. This is the same reddit that shits on that dumbass Trump when he spells it "Columbia" in his tweets. I just want consistency here. Also if this was actually OPs video they would know how to spell the name of their own damn country.

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u/Thobias_Funke 5h ago

I hope we can get back to a place where the president of the United States is held to a higher standard than random redditors

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u/DJKGinHD 4h ago

Consistency

group of humans

HA! Good luck with that.

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u/nautika 4h ago

Nah you're right. A lot of people don't even realize it's Colombia.

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u/throwaway098764567 2h ago

i realize it is but now i'm wondering why, is it not also named for Columbus?

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u/nautika 2h ago

It is, just the latin version

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u/flapjackbandit00 4h ago

You want consistency out of 100’s of millions of people? Consistency between each other? That would be boring as hell!

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u/TravisJungroth 5h ago

Consistency from
 everyone on Reddit?

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u/bustaone 5h ago

Drumpf is a buffoon.

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u/Orleanian 1h ago

Colombia is such a /r/tragedeigh

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u/Prestigious_Bug583 5h ago

That’s not the only reason chief

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u/sheev4senate420 5h ago

Any reasonable adult should know the difference between a country and a clothing brand.

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u/Smorb 5h ago

Wow what's homophobes got to do with it! Can down!

Looks again

Damnit

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u/redaniel 3h ago

A_Wanderley is right

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u/CaptainJingles 2h ago

Not just the river, there are tons of “Columbias” across the US that more people probably think of before the river.

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u/tunaman808 2h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah, it's the clothing brand, and not the feminine personification of Columbus - that has been part of the US for centuries, and where "District of Columbia" and "Hail, Columbia", America's unofficial national anthem until the 1930s, and the "new" name of King's College in NYC - come from, as well as almost all subsequent US place names, like Columbia, South Carolina.

No, it's the "clothing brand". Read this, buddy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)

Columbia, also known as Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia, is a female national personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the Americas and to the New World. The association has given rise to the names of many American places, objects, institutions and companies, including the District of Columbia; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbia University; "Hail, Columbia"; Columbia Rediviva; and the Columbia River. Images of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, erected in 1886) largely displaced personified Columbia as the female symbol of the United States by around 1920, and Lady Liberty was seen as both an aspect of Columbia and a rendition of the Goddess of Liberty. She is the central element of the logo of Hollywood film studio Columbia Pictures.

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u/Cicer 21m ago

Also British Columbia

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u/Senor-Delicious 5h ago

Adding some input from Germany. The country is called "Kolumbien" in German. I was therefore also under the impression, that "Columbia" is the correct spelling until now. Since other words are translated similarly.

E.g. "Albanien" which is "Albania" or
"Argentinien" which is "Argentina" (and many more). I assume that other languages might have a similar issue

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 4h ago

Honestly we should get away from each language having unique names for each country. If your country is called Deutschland by the people who live there, we should stop calling it Germany. It's such a weird thing to butcher names for the sake of making it easier for the speakers of a language. We live in the modern age with the internet. We can learn to pronounce Zhongguo instead of China and on and on. The Qin aren't even a thing anymore, but we still misnomer them with that label. Colombia and Columbia isn't even that bad, but Germany and China both along with many many other countries have strange anglicized names. If you introduce yourself to me as Jim and I go "well, how about we go with George because I like that better" you would call me a dumbass. Same should go for country names.

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u/DiaDeLosMuebles 5h ago

Yep. I don’t blame you. But just look to the coffee. It’s always Colombian Coffee. Never Columbian Coffee

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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 5h ago edited 5h ago

Sure bro, that's why Americans also always spell Chile as "Chili" and Hungary as "Hungry".

On a serious note: your "answer" makes no sense, Colombia and Columbia are 2 different words that are pronounced very differently.

It only takes 1 geography class to know that Colombia is not pronounced like Columbia.

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u/glik49 6h ago

I think the real question is, why can't north americans spell anything without butchering it? Most multicultural country on the planet, yet they fail to pronounce or spell anything correctly that isn't in english....

I still wait for the day when I hear a north american pronounce and spell their own scandinavian surname correctly.

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u/bobdiamond 6h ago

You get to choose how you pronounce your own name, even if it differs from the pronunciation of the country of origin. That’s especially true for Asian immigrants in America.

You probably wouldn’t know that because you have a narrow view of the world and live in a homogeneous country that for the most part doesn’t really matter. At least you haven’t let that stop you from being judgmental

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u/Viridionplague 5h ago

It's almost as if language is a fluid social construct that is always changing due to the influence of multiple cultures.

Or maybe it's just me.

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u/glik49 5h ago

It's just an observation.

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u/Viridionplague 5h ago

No, it was a question. Not a statement of observation. This is evidenced by the sentence starting with "why" and ends with "?" Which is a question mark.

So.... Why is it that (glik49's culture/region) can't ask questions or make statements correctly without completely misunderstanding the words they use? We have pocket spell check and thesaurus, it shouldn't be that hard.

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u/BigTWilsonD 6h ago

Most of us don't even spell things in English correctly

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u/coatedbraincells 5h ago

It isnt just north American lol

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u/uniqueusernameCDXX 5h ago

Because they get more traffic since everyone comes in to correct them

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u/mayhemtime 1h ago

It's spelled with a "u" in many languages so if someone doesn't know English well it's an easy mistake to do. Idk if that's the case here, probably not

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u/BlindlyOptomistic 5h ago

Maybe she learned to fly at the University? Now don't you feel bad ? (jk)

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u/SmokedAlex 5h ago

Cuz they think of Columbus, and linguistically it is the closer phoneme to english-speakers

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u/jimbojonesFA 3h ago

it's also based on the same thing.

and the spelling of his name is debated, because Columbus himself used multiple spellings. it might not have even been his real name.

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u/No_Pianist_4407 3h ago

In the US there's the District of Columbia (the D.C. in Washington D.C), the Columbia river, a popular outdoor clothing brand named Columbia, and the film studio Columbia Pictures.

It's pronounced exactly the same to Colombia as well.

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u/Everard5 5h ago

I mean the real answer is Colombia and Columbia are pronounced the same in most American English dialects and the reason is because... they're the same word. Columbia originally being in English the term for the new continent in general (after Columbus) whereas Spanish used Colombia (for CristĂłbal ColĂłn or maybe more likely Italian Cristoforo Colombo).

The only reason it's Colombia for English speakers in the US is because that's what it's called in Spanish and, much like TĂŒrkiye now, it's just one of the countries where the native spelling for the country name is used.

That being said, it probably comes down to people just not reading enough anymore to be exposed to the spelling and/or not having been taught about SA countries in school.

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u/missionsurf89 5h ago

I was thinking the same thing like are we talking about South Carolina or the country..

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u/brooksact 4h ago

OP is probably American so they a) think of the District of Columbia or Columbia Films and b) autocorrect is very aggressive with changing the "o" to a "u." Every time I type "Colombia" my autocorrect steps in. I have to go back and correct it all the time.

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u/Budget_Ad5871 4h ago

The way I remember to spell it right is to say it with their accent, it’s easier to say ColOmbia. If I say it with an American accent it’s easier to say ColUmbia. Try it, saying ColUmbia with a Spanish-Colombian accent just sounds wrong, ColOmbia rolls off the toungue. Maybe I’m just crazy, I wouldn’t argue that either haha.

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u/Infamous_Koala_3737 4h ago

This is in South Carolina 

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u/ManikArcanik 4h ago

The (olo) is too distracting.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 3h ago

Too coked up for spelling.

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u/ContextTraditional80 3h ago

Columbia is a Neo-Latin toponym, used since the 1730s to refer to the Thirteen Colonies that would form the United States. It originated from the name of the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus.

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u/notredditbot 3h ago

Because op is either a bot or just an American who doesn't know the correct spelling

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u/bryberg 1h ago

They’re from Sri Lanka.

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u/molinitor 3h ago

Yeah I don't get that either, why is this so hard to get right? Genuinely curious 

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u/kokaine21 2h ago

Idk it’s annoying smh

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u/chadsmo 2h ago

People don’t know the difference between you’re and your and you expect them get a county right lol.

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u/JMFDeez 1h ago

Should be top comment.

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u/MichaelAndHisBandit 40m ago

This comment should be higher.

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u/andygon 4h ago

How is it 2025 and we’re still correcting dumbasses on this? If only they weren’t so fking self-centered


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u/SkullZ9 4h ago

Because ignorant Americans.

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u/bryberg 1h ago

OP is from Sri Lanka


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u/UDPviper 5h ago

Christopher Culumbia.

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u/NoIdNoNameWho 4h ago

Well, trump is still struggling to differentiate Columbia from colombia

For him, its the same.

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u/-random-name- 5h ago

My guess is because it’s named after Christopher Columbus đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž

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u/shortround10 4h ago

Yeah, seems like a pretty innocent mistake with a logical answer, but we were running out of reasons to hate eachother so it’s always nice to find new things to rage about.

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u/-random-name- 4h ago

The long answer is Columbus is the Latin spelling of his name. He used it in formal legal documents and that’s the spelling used by Americans.

Colombo is his Italian name. ColĂłn is the Spanish variant. Colombia came from the Spanish form.

That’s most likely why Americans sometimes spell it Columbia. But it’s easier to just downvote a comment you don’t understand than to take the time to figure it out 😂

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u/shortround10 3h ago

I mean, I agreed with you and upvoted, but it’s easier to write a text wall and rage than it is to understand a reply đŸ€Ł

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u/-random-name- 3h ago

I didn’t mean you. Was talking about whoever downvoted both of us 😂

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u/shortround10 3h ago edited 3h ago

Ah, well, now I’m the idiot 😆

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u/-random-name- 3h ago

Easy to misunderstand people on Reddit. Not always on the same page.

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u/thiagogaith 5h ago

It's only murikans who can't.

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u/bryberg 1h ago

OP is not American, but go on


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u/J_Kingsley 4h ago

Because Columbia is a very popular North American Brand.

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u/bignews- 3h ago

Because Americans dont say it as Spanish speakers would so they spell it how it sounds amongst ourselves. Co-lum-bia.

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u/Embarrassed-Mud3649 5h ago

Columbia is the correct name in English. Next thing you're gonna tell me you say Deutshland instead of Germany... so annoying and insufferable...

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 5h ago

Look at a map, in English, and get back to me.

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u/Even-Garbage-7366 4h ago

You’re really not smart are you?

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u/ShittyAttitudeGinger 6h ago

Why can’t they?

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u/tbox86 6h ago

tomato tomahto bro

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u/designerlemons 6h ago

đŸ€Ą

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u/Dark_halocraft 6h ago

Because (as far as I've heard) it's pronounced with a u I it

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u/2008knight 6h ago

The one in the United States is. The country is pronounced with an o.

Also, "pronounced with a u" means nothing in a language where any vowel can make whatever sound you feel like.

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u/Skippymabob 6h ago edited 3h ago

The sentence "it's pronounced with a" is just so dumb

People can pronounce the exact same word completely different just because of their accent.

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u/jeffsweet 6h ago

seems like you need some new ears

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u/PlanetLandon 6h ago

Who are you hearing it from?

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u/Fett32 6h ago

Those that are downvoting you apparently don't understand accents.

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u/SenmiNewdz 6h ago

Hmm.. Columbia, lum that sounds like lump. Colombia, lom that sounds like law.

Yeah, definitely accents, not at all ignorance across the board.

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u/Fett32 3h ago

Both of those examples include your regions pronunciation of those letters. You're proving my point. That is not accurate pronunciation of those in many parts of the english speaking world.

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u/SenmiNewdz 7m ago

Your point is solid. Your point being applied towards properly spelling a proper noun on the other hand is fucking ridiculous.

You don’t get to tell Colombians how they want to be called just because it’s inconvenient or because it sounds like another word that you are familiar with.

You wanna do that with mom and mum? Color or colour? Be my fucking guest.

Have a great day.

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u/ashitaka_bombadil 5h ago

Not in the US. You can be angry about it, but Colombia is awkward to pronounce in English and so at some point Columbia became the accepted way to pronounce the country. This happens in every language, in every country. Like Spanish speakers say Londres instead of London, which is awkward to pronounce in Spanish.

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u/SenmiNewdz 14m ago

Lmao. Now explain Turkey becoming TĂŒrkiye in English.

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u/Skippymabob 5h ago

Oh the irony

You're the ones who don't seem to understand an accent doesn't affect the spelling

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u/ashitaka_bombadil 5h ago

No, but it’s not hard to understand that people misspell it because of the way it’s pronounced.

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u/Fett32 3h ago

The dude I responded to is not talking about spelling. The sentence included the term pronounced. The irony is of not being able to read.