The following joke was told to me on my Yangtze cruise by my fellow traveler Calvin. The guy has a talent of telling jokes. I was so naive that I believed in the joke.
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The Chinese cook in Columbus’s ship saw America for the first time and said in Taishanese, “Ah Mud Li Ka (roughly translated as “what is this?”, and that’s why it is called America - of course it is not true but the joke is quite funny to me. 
How Canada got its name.
ReplyDelete3 Canadians were sitting around wondering what to call their country....but could never agree upon a name.
One guy says, let’s just all pick a letter and then we can put them together and perhaps they will lead us to a name for our country.
The first guy says “How about a ‘C’ eh?
The second guy says “How about an ‘N’ eh?
The third guy says “How about a ‘D’ eh?
So, that is how Canada (Cehnehdeh) got its name.