"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
Can 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?
It 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.
A 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.
"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
Can 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?
It 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.
"Saragossa" is an old and well-established spelling of that city's name in English and this is an English-speaking forum
A 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.
At least you learned something new today
Every language has his own name for tons of places. In Spanish it's Zaragoza and in English "Saragossa". Ditto with Londres/London.