Talk:Cusco
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"Cusco" is also a name of a music group. How should the information be added in such a way as to preserve the reference to the city?
- If you want to create a page for the music group, you should name it Cusco (band) or something similar, and then add a line on the Cusco page saying This page is about the city in Peru. For the band, see Cusco (band). --Tuomas hello 19:26, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
Cusco is the right name of the city. just remember that Latin American Spanish does not prononce letter "Z" as in Spain. Anyway, it beacomes from quechuan "Qusqu". South American languages dos not use letter "Z"
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Cusco vs Cuzco
I have reverted this page due to a copy/paste move by User:200.106.120.30 I know both Cusco and Cuzco are used, "Cusco" is probably the proper spelling in Spanish and I don't disagree if others think the page should be moved. BUT, if the page is to be moved it should be done using the "move" tab in the toolbar, not by copy/paste. Gsd97jks 16:29, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I think we generally replace sc in Spanish with zc when we anglicize a word. For example, Nazca vs. the Spanish Nasca. I'm used to seeing Cusco in Spanish, so Cuzco looks a little wierd to me, but I think that's what all the American and English maps use. Zenyu 18:34, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
- Curious about this, I went looking around for discussion elsewhere, and found this note (http://lists.albura.net/efe.es/apuntes-kpn/1999-10/0627.html). In Spanish, the current common spelling is 's', but historically, and in other languages, English included, it's a 'z'. Many of the articles here alternate between the two spellings within the same article. Serapio 01:38, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
- To complicate things, there is also the department of Cusco, which surrounds the city of Cuzco/Cusco. I'm inclined to say the department name hasn't been anglicized, and so it should keep its Spanish spelling. Serapio 02:06, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
- In Cusco "Cusco" is used nearly all of the time. All of the people that I know from Cusco use the spelling with an S. Sometimes "Qosqo" is used to make the name look especially quechua.
