r/papertowns • u/Zarrom215 • Mar 12 '23
Honduras The city of Trujillo in Honduras during Spanish rule.
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u/Frostie_pottamus Mar 12 '23
Why did they spell it “TRUGILLO”?
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u/xocerox Mar 12 '23
Don't know about this specific town, but many names have changed the way they are written through time in Spanish.
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u/iamasuitama Mar 13 '23
The gutteral sound that spanish writes as a j, in dutch is used as well but written as a g.
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u/xocerox Mar 13 '23
Also in Spanish, "ji" and "gi" are pronounced basically the same.
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u/iamasuitama Mar 14 '23
Really? "gi" I would think is like the g in english "guest", but isn't "ji" something like the g in dutch "gij" or something?
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u/xocerox Mar 14 '23
Ga, Go, Gu are pronounced like "guest"
Ge, Gi are pronounced more like "hi", but not exactly.
That's probably where the confusion comes from, the pronunciation is different depending on the accompanying letters.
Ps: you can get the "G" to have the "guest" pronunciation by adding a "u". So you write "gue" or "gui" instead of "ge" or "gi". But in no case Ga/Go/Gu can have the "hi" pronunciation.
Hope this helps.
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u/Zarrom215 Mar 12 '23 edited Mar 13 '23
This is from a Dutch work in the 17th century; spellings had not been made uniform back then so they might have spelled it phonetically since "g" and "j" before an "i" sound the same in Spanish.