Angentine/Argentinian

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Which one es more common:  Argentinian Literature or Argentine Literature?  Thanks in advanced.

GPY · Accepted Answer

This is a useful tool for such questions, taking its results from a large number of books scanned by Google:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Argentinian+literature%2C+Argentine+literature&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CArgentinian%20literature%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CArgentine%20literature%3B%2Cc0

Surprisingly (for me) "Argentine literature" comes out well on top.

I see no reason to capitalise "literature".

4444mv · Answer

Thank you IGP.  I capitalised it because it is the title of a subject given in a school. Is it incorrect?

4444mv · Answer

Sorry GPY! I wrote your nick in an incorrect form.

GPY · Answer

4444mvThank you IGP. I capitalised it because it is the title of a subject given in a school. Is it incorrect?

Sorry, I see. As the title of a school subject it would be correct to capitalise it.

4444mv · Answer

<hr/>Thank you again.

GPY · Answer

By the way, there is quite a lot of discussion on various websites about the "Argentine" versus "Argentinian" question. It seems to be a bit of a can of worms. (If you are from Argentina then perhaps you are already aware of this.) Some people claim that "Argentine" is the usual and logically (or etymologically) preferred form, while others say that "Argentinian" is more common nowadays and that "Argentine" sounds old-fashioned. "Argentinean" is also mentioned in a few places as a possibility, though to me this looks plain wrong. Some people say there is a difference between American and British usage, but the idea stated in a couple of places that "Argentinian" is American, doesn't ring true with me as I am British and I usually say "Argentinian".

4444mv · Answer

I wrote it the way you use it. Interesting explanation Thank you GPY !!

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