Open Tex2002ans opened 3 years ago
Also from Lexico:
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/british_columbia https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/district_of_columbia
and probably:
Columbia (with a 'u')
Definitely valid:
Columbia University https://www.lexico.com/definition/columbia_university
British Columbia https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/British%20Columbia
District of Columbia https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/District%20of%20Columbia
Columbia River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River
(Should there be a huge/broad rule covering large rivers?)
Columbian (with a 'u')
Definitely valid:
Colombian (with an 'o')
378177 colombian peso
103029 colombian pesos
66124 colombian government
27386 colombian women
24965 colombian military
24849 colombian army
23340 colombian drug
22979 colombian coffee
21376 colombian and
20832 colombian president
17791 colombian emerald
13032 colombian authorities
(Unsure if there's completely separate rules for money? Since pesos/dollars are used in multiple countries.) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peso
Definitely should point towards the 'o' version:
but I'm unsure on:
From Google searches, it looks like the 'u' version is an extremely common typo, but I don't know if it's an actual/separate type of emerald.
Google hits:
1,070,000 = Colombian emerald
330,000 = Columbian emerald
I'm thinking any other usages of:
should be marked as a potential "word confusion".
Columbia->Colombia
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Colombia https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/colombia
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Columbia https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/columbia