Talk:Argentine
Latest comment: 5 years ago by -sche in topic Proscribed?
Argentine is the correct form, not Argentinian or Argentinean.
Can someone change that?
To verify my claims you can check:
- the Oxford English dictionary
- Merriam-Webster separates the proper form Argentine from the "accepted" forms Argentinian and Argentinean
- the official Argentine government's sites in English
- or google the three terms and see it's usage on the internet.
Proscribed?[edit]
From L. R. Trask, Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English:
The country is properly called Argentina, and not *the Argentine. A person or a thing from Argentina is Argentinian, not *Argentine.
— Ungoliant (falai) 23:48, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hm, but Ngrams suggest Argentine is the most common form both as an adjective and (by an even wider margin) as a noun (singular). - -sche (discuss) 06:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)