 Welcome to the Endnotes, where I put all the fun facts I can't fit into the main videos. Today, another extra bit of information from the history of the Americano, and if you haven't seen that yet, click on the card. The etymology for America given in the video is by far the most widely accepted one, but there is an alternate suggestion that the Americas were not named in honour of Emerygo Vespucci, but after a man named Richard Emeryke. According to this claim, Richard Emeryke, an Anglo-Welsh merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff of Bristol, was a backer of John Cabot's expedition to the New World, which was subsequently named after him in gratitude for this sponsorship. The problem is, there isn't really any evidence for any of this, and so few have taken up the theory. By the way, his last name, Emeryke, is an Anglo-Sci spelling of the Welsh app Merig, meaning son of Merig, which is the Welsh form of the name Maurice, which comes from the Latin name Maurus. This in turn may be related to Greek Maurus dark, and or to Moor, in other words meaning inhabitant of Mauritania. But, lest we lose our connection to that proto-Indo-European reg root central to the Americano video, Emeryke's first name, Richard, is made up of the elements Reek, ruler, and Harthu, hard, so literally hard or powerful ruler. As always, you can hear even more etymology and history, as well as interviews with a wide range of fascinating people on the Endless Knot podcast, available on all the major podcast platforms, as well as on our other YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!