Re: R: Italogallic in Zera, and other languages.

Barry Garcia wrote:
> Also i remember in Spanish class my teacher making a distinction between
> pascua - passover, and pascua florida - easter.
Hence the name of the state of Florida, from (IIRC) Tierra de la Pascua
Florida, which is, I guess, why it's la Florida, but (IIRC) no other
state uses the article.  (As in a bilingual poster where I work, which
has at the top, in the Spanish part, "La ley de la Florida prohibe
discriminación ..."

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