Talk:Sumeria

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we should, of course, link to ("did you mean?") Sumer, but we cannot say Sumeria " is a common name used to describe" Sumer, since that's not correct English. --dab (𒁳) 20:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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ok, does "Sumeria" see any use in the sense of "Sumer" in English? Yes. I get 28,000 google hits for "Ancient Sumeria". But that just makes it a common misspelling. "Sumeria" is an obvious back-formation from "Sumerian". Google books gives me 611 hits for "Ancient Sumeria", mostly from dodgy or non-scholarly titles like "Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women", "Lost Cities of Atlantis" etc. But there seems to be some academic use in the 19th early 20th centuries. "Ancient Sumeria" is mentioned in Donald A. Mackenzie's Myths of Babylonia and Assyria. --dab (𒁳) 09:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)