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
Dog Latin Labour's Lost", includes a reference to dog Latin: Thomas Jefferson mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815: A once-common schoolboy doggerel which, though very poor Latin, would have done a tolerable job of reinforcing the rhythms of Latin hexameters: Insofar as this specimen can be translated, it is as follows: The meter uses Latin vowel quantities for the Latin parts, and to some extent follows English stress in the English parts. Another variant has similar lines in a different order, with the following variants: The meaning here is "The storm rose up and overturned the boat" and "Except for John