Editor:
Thanks to Roberta McKern for her always-interesting stories from our museum.
I had wondered for decades why “Lyma” Ohio, but “Leema” Peru. I found out, when I went to Peru in the 1990s.
The Spanish conquistadores asked the locals what they called the nearby river.
“Rimac,” they responded.
Well, Spaniards use a rolled ‘r’ and didn’t catch the “r” that we Americans now use. So the Spaniards heard “Lima” because they also missed the…