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

> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Barry Garcia wrote:
> > Also i remember in Spanish class my teacher making a distinction between
> > pascua - passover, and pascua florida - easter.
>
The way I learned was calling passover as _pascua judía_ and easter as
_pascua cristiana_.  Anyhow other religious festivities are called _pascua_,
worth to mention christmas.  I've heart that the name _pascua florida_ was
used for not confusing with christmas (but I don't remember the exact name
of christmas as _pascua ..._).

Anyhow, most of the times you just call easter as _semana santa_ (holly
week), begining in Palm Sunday and ended in Easter (Resurection) Sunday.

> 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 ..."
>
Many places names in Spanish uses optionally articles but raghly saying many
of them had an adjective as name or where otherwise knoen as "country of":
la Florida, la Argentina, el Perú, el Ecuador, el Uruguay.  A few places
uses always adjective: El Salvador, Los Angeles but many use never article:
*la Colombia, *la Venezuela, *la España.

-- Carlos Th