[email protected] wrote:
>
> > A Coru�a [...]
>
> I though it was "La Coru�a" (in Castillian) or "A Corunha" (in Galician).
In fact, I never went to Galicia, so I do not know.
In the rest of Spain, practice is to spell it A Coru�a, particularly
on road atlases, even if the proper Castillian spelling is of course
La Coru�a (and that is the name used when one talks about the football
club).
Thinking about it, I agree A Corunha looks more Portuguese so
Galician than A Coru�a. So I did look at the official web site
of Galicia <URL:http://www.xunta.es/>, and found an interesting
page <URL:http://www.xunta.es/nomenclator/index.htm>. Which in
fact use A Coru�a, even in a Galician text. � suivre...
Antoine
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