Oops, see CORRECTION below.
||Tom Parmenter wrote: ||> Spanish speakers wouldn't like it to be called a Wikipedia because ||> they really don't even like saying or hearing the "Wiki" part, both ||> the "w" and the "k" sound being foreign and unpleasant. || ||For the Esperanto people, I registered vikipedio.com/net/org || ||I could do the same for Spanish people, if there is an acceptable analogue. | |Keeping in mind that Spanish is itself phonetic and that I can't put a |diaresis over the u, the Spanish Royal Academy would probably spell it | CORRECTION: g-u<diaresis>-i-q-u-i | |based on their preferred spelling of "whisky" as | | g-u<diaresis>-i-s-q-u-i | |The diaresis is not an umlaut, but a diacritical mark indicating that |the U and the I are in separate syllables. The Spanish aren't crazy |about this solution (whisky is usually just spelled whisky), but it is |the official one. I don't know how you'd get a diaresis into a URL. | |Perhaps you should check with contributor Perique des Palottes. | |Tom | || ||I'm very much opposed to closing any of our language wikipedias. || ||--Jimbo |