Re: Spanish adjectives of nationality

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Paul J Kriha wrote:

I would expect Ivory Coast would lead to a "cute" adjective too.
I don't even know how it's "correctly" handled in English. :-)
pjk

Côte d'Ivoirien

The US State Department and the CIA World Factbook have "Ivorian". In
French (even on Côte d'Ivoire government web sites), it's just plain
"Ivoirien", without the "Côte".

But at what cost?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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