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Sep 3, 2020 at 19:22	comment	added	TaliesinMerlin		The first use of America in a lexicon likely came in 1538 with The Dictionary of Thomas Elyot: "America, a countrey late founde in the east by Amercum Vesputium."
Sep 3, 2020 at 17:01	comment	added	Tom O' Bedlam		@Greybeard HAH!-- What delightful wit! You have spoken the words of a true prophet! Bless your soul!
Sep 3, 2020 at 16:56	comment	added	Greybeard		@ATormentedWorm I am interested in when the word was first PRINTED (not verbally used) in an English written or translated PRINTED source. Not in conversation, as of course that would indeed be untraceable, Wiki: The Waldseemüller map was by April 1507, the map, globe and accompanying book, Introduction to Cosmography, were published. A thousand copies were printed and sold throughout Europe. You can be absolutely assured that the map reached England, and that the purchaser of the map would have said "America".
Sep 3, 2020 at 16:02	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		But doesn't 'when the word was first printed in an English written or translated PRINTED source' imply that now 'the English language [has] made the word [its] own'?
Sep 3, 2020 at 15:54	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		Wouldn't that be in conversation rather than in print (and hence untraceable)?
Sep 3, 2020 at 15:50	comment	added	Tom O' Bedlam		Wonderful stuff-- But I am distinctly interested in the earliest uses of the word "America" in English, not in early uses in which the English language made the word their own. 1654 would seem very late as an early use, as I do know of the word being used as early as the mid-16th Century in English, but I would like to see how early one could find. Thank you though!
Sep 3, 2020 at 15:46	history	answered	Edwin Ashworth	CC BY-SA 4.0