Columbia (name) taken directly from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels while" a few others were classical or neoclassical in style. Such were Ierne for Ireland, Iberia for Spain, Noveborac for New York (from Eboracum, the Roman name for York) and Columbia for America—at the time used in the sense of "European colonies in the New World". The name was perhaps first coined by Samuel Johnson, thought to have been the author of an introductory essay (in which Columbia already appears) which explained the conceit of substituting Lilliputian for English names; Johnson also wrote down the "Debates" from 1740 to 1743. The name continued
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin the purpose of determining vowel length; that is, the syllable preceding the ending is considered the penult. This last pronunciation of "-os" is the expected one; however, in the masculine accusative plural, where the ending is historically -ōs, the academic prescription was the pronunciation . Such an ending is not found in English loan words or proper names. Latin as traditionally pronounced by English speakers is part of the living history of spoken Latin through medieval French into English. Three stages of development of A-L can thus be distinguished: Latin from the period when its orthography and grammar became standardized