Talk:Argentine

Latest comment: 6 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?

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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)Reply

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)Reply
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