NK - Heraldry, naming stuff
Vanessa Goins
ly_isabela at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 30 15:58:03 PDT 2000
I stand corrected. :-) You'll have to excuse me, I'm a bit frazzled
today.
If Malta is indeed considered a "femmine" word and uses "la" instead of
"el" then It would be "de la". But, I'm thinking that just saying
Ahadia de Malta sounds better.
-Belle
--- Chris Backus <cbackus at peakonline.com> wrote:
> Yes, de + el = del. So if Malta is not called el Malta (which I
> don't
> *think* it would be, because words ending in "a" are normally
> preceded by
> "la", if it would ever be called "the Malta" in the first place),
> then del
> Malta doesn't seem right. I bet "de Malta" would be close, but you
> never
> know, because modern Spanish may not match period Spanish and
> constructions
> like this may not be used.
>
> Maybe Gabriela can answer?
>
> Hawkins
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