Google also removed the ability to suggest edits to specifically the Gulf.
Guess they knew ahead of time they'd get an influx of requests to change or back.
They hadn't removed that ability as of Thursday evening, because I was able to give feed back. My guess is they got a rash of hate messages similar to mine and decided to remove it because of that. I hate them so much right now, but Google is unfortunately the forefront service for my online life. So much I do with Google apps that I really can't get in any one other place.
While we are at renaming things...
But it kinda makes sense to be called Gulf of America since it's located in North America.
It also kind of makes sense to leave the name in place since the world has been calling it the "Gulf of Mexico" mid-1500s. The original name was in reference to the Aztecs.
It's also the country that has the majority of the coastline
Well, the continent was named America, not the Mexico continent. So the name Gulf of America just sounds right. It's not like the name changed to the Gulf of US.
I thought it was called North America?
Yeah, "America".
Following your logic Lake Michigan should be renamed Lake America. There's a bunch of lakes up there, do they all get renamed Lake of America? Seems confusing!
Here's a list of all the gulfs in the Americas:
Following your logic, they're all badly named because that's just named after the region they're in, not the content.
Not badly named, I just don't see anything wrong renaming it to the Gulf of America. It's like renaming the South China Sea to South East Asia Sea.
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