Re: Language help

That's exactly why I would prefer only native speakers, or those with strong local knowledge to chime in.

Anybody could google the cardinal points in Dutch, but few would find that the map annotations for longitude and latitude are not W, O, Z, N, but WL, OL, ZB and NB. On the compass rose they are W, O, Z, N though.

Similarly, in the long past I changed all the Dutch names for months and weekdays to lowercase, and reduced the abbreviations for weekdays from 3 to 2 letters, since nobody would ever use 3-letter abbreviations for the weekdays.

Cheers,
Remko

On 15 May 2014, at 22:16, p Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:

> In Spanish you generally capitalize the first letter of the cardinal points when you refer to its name: Oeste, Este, Norte, Sur. I thing its the same idea in french. 
> 
> You use them in lowercase only when you want to express a relative position (same as in "two miles south of this town"), or use it as an adjective: latitud norte, viento sur (south wind).... but, you say: el Sur
> 
> In a map (or compas rose) is more usual to see the first letter in uppercase

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