Hello, Raoul!

Recalled hearing something unusual about this a couple of months back, and Googled the topic (keywords: "naming of America") -

A couple of results:

BBC Discovery - Naming of America. From what I can tell, most of the remaining hits on this theme refer to a book, Cabot and the Naming of America, published and hawked by the author at his own website, Petmac Pulbications

A monograph by one Jonathan Cohen, entitled "The Naming of America: Fragments We've Shored Against Ourselves", which contains not only the Richard Ap Meryk hypothesis but another.

There are some others, which quickly drop off the edge of reality into places like Atlantis... I'd rather not go there, thanks.

Fox

[Tom Broz, among others, probably recognizes the header as a quote from Firesign Theater's first album Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him]