Please stop misspelling our name!(COLOMBIA) (Brief article)

AuthorPotenza, Alessandra

"Just landed in Columbia. On my way to the hotel," Paris Hilton tweeted last year from the Bogota airport. Within minutes, dozens of people tweeted back: "It's Colombia, NOT Columbia!" Hilton is in good company: In +1973, President Richard Nixon gave the South American country a flag that had been taken to the moon by Apollo 17; the commemorative plaque had the misspelling. Recent offenders include Justin Bieber and Will Smith, along with NBC and CNN. Now Colombians are fighting back: Tens of thousands are taking part in "It's Colombia, NOT Columbia," a campaign to shame misspellers on social media and remind them that "Columbia" is...

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