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it's called Zaragoza
by Zardoz84 2mo ago
it's called Zaragoza
- usrnm 2mo agoCan we please stop with this nonsense? No matter where you live and which language you speak you never call the majority of places on Earth right. Can we just accept it and move on?
- cladopa 2mo agoIt is not non sense. I am spaniard myself and I did not understood what he was talking about until I saw the correction(is this a club name or something?). If I want to talk about "Seattle" and use "Siadol" a lot of people are not going to understand.
- alkyon 2mo agoAt least you learned something new today
- usrnm 2mo ago"Saragossa" is an old and well-established spelling of that city's name in English and this is an English-speaking forum
- tialaramex 2mo agoA name is what something is called. For people it's rude to call them by a name they didn't choose but for non-persons that doesn't matter, if everybody else wants to call it "Siadol" then that is its name.
- anthk 2mo agoEvery language has his own name for tons of places. In Spanish it's Zaragoza and in English "Saragossa". Ditto with Londres/London.
- alkyon 2mo ago"Zaragoza (Spanish: [θaɾaˈɣoθa]), traditionally known in English as Saragossa[7] (/ˌsærəˈɡɒsə/ SARR-ə-GOSS-ə)" according to Wikipedia, originally Caesaraugusta and later Saraqusṭah to be exact