Re: Language help

In spanish also we have "Septiembre" vs. "Setiembre" :s

Quoting Remko Scharroo <[email protected]>:

> 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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