Colombian, not Columbian.

It's totally indefensible to have this many errors. Blaming spell check is lame. Particularly when it comes to Spanish names and words, being well educated today means having basic familiarity. charles once called it The el Camino or something. Lame. The Columbia misspelling happens frequently. Stupid, ignorant americans again. What would you think of an Italian intern at a alt hip blog site in rome who spelled our nationality as Amerigan, because you know, it was Amerigo Vespucci? Understandable mistake? What?

@9 10 13.
People around the world don't misspell Colombia and don't in fact misspell names of states or nations or nationalities as much as americans do. if people means people writing news. your defense of ignorance is stunning.

sarah: yes, I agree, many californians are utterly ignorant. your point?

btw it wasn't about a road in california. it was about a restaurant here in seattle. el camino. Do you also say "let's go hear The Der Meistersinger"? "Do you believe in the la docle vita?"? "Let's go buy tickets to The Les Miserables!"? Stop being so fucking hardheaded in defense of utter ignorance. @13, you get props for imitating redneck morons the best. angry reaction. It's a fairly common and well known error that we have the Columbia River and the District of Columbia and we have the nation called Colombia. Mots people with a college education get it right. Only the most ignorant would defend making this mistake. as for capitalization, (a) obvoiusly I'm not trying, (b) I am not writing for a news paper, duh.