Okay, I always thought Kit's last name was "Rodriguez"... However, in A Wizard Abroad, it's spelled Rodrigues. What happened there???
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Hey Lexi, thanks for bringing this up... I forgot that I had noticed this too.
I did some off-the-cuff research for the answer. What I found out doesn't exactly solve the dilemma, but kind of relates anyway.
Here's what the Internet told me:
- Spanish spelling was only standardized within the last 150-200 years or so, thus there are lots of names with multiple spellings still around. Lots of other cultures' names seem to be this way too. My own has at least six spelling variations.
- According to several pronunciation guides, the Spanish "s" can sometimes be pronounced like "z," but the Spanish "z" is pretty much always pronounced as "s!" So spelling-wise, they're a bit interchangeable.
Here's what my phone book told me:
- We have both Rodrigues and Rodriguez in the listings. There is one whole column of Rodrigues, and nine whole pages of Rodriguez. Here in Central Florida, our Spanish-speakers mostly come from Puerto Rico, and Rodriguez is a very common Puerto Rican last name.
Here's what my own experience tells me:
- I have a student whose Spanish surname seems to be spelled either with a final "s" or a final "z," depending on which document in the records I'm looking at.
- While I did notice that Kit's name was spelled differently, it didn't surprise me, because I've seen that kind of thing before.
In the end though, my guess is that only Diane and the publishers will have the definitive answer on this one! Hope my rambling on didn't bore you too much!
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No, actually, that was very interesting. I had noticed that as well.
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I allways thought I saw it say Rodrigez without any u, but I may be mistaken
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