1864  Argentine, Argentinean, Argentinian

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:26:20 -0400
From: Sergio <cachafaz@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject: Argentine, Argentinean, Argentinian

Argen7tine (-tn, -tn) or Argen7tine7an (-tn-n) adj. & n.

The American Heritage. Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

argentinian

adj : of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people;
"Argentinian tango" [syn: Argentine, Argentinian] n : a native or inhabitant
of Argentina [syn: Argentinian]


Source: WordNet . 1.6, ) 1997 Princeton University

Argentine - From: French Argentin, Latin Argentum = Silver - Of
Argentina Source Webster Dictionary.

It seems that the Webster dictionary gives *Argentine as the adjective in
reference to anything of Argentine nationality.

The American Heritage Dictionary accepts *Argentine and *Argentinean as
equivalent.

The WorldNet Princeton University dictionary accepts *Argentine .

In summary we have Argentine, Argentinean, Argentinian as acceptable forms
in reference to the Nationality of Argentina.

In Castilian the names of certain countries may have a definite article
such as : La Argentina or El Brasil, the same occurs in French "La France".
L'Italie, L'Argentine, etc.

I remember British Nationals that live in Buenos Aires referring to the
country as "The Argentine" pronounced argentyne.

Americans do not use the article and will pronounce Argentine as argenteen.

So it seems to me that any of the proposed forms are correct, I have a
tendency to use the word Argentinean but I will probably change to
Argentine.

So we can speak of Argentine Tango . Argentinean Women and Argentinian
food. We could travel to The Argentine (argentyne) or to Argentine
(argenteen). The Argentine (argentyne) sounds more distinguish, does it
not? :))

Some languages have the National Academy Of Letters as the maximum authority
of the language in English we have the dictionaries.

It seems that the dictionaries inquire all over the English Speaking world,
to people of well known reputation to establish the proper orthography,
pronunciation and grammar.