An El Or An Ar?
DURING our interview with Bishop Baddeley, the name of the best-known of the Solomon Islands came up several times. We noticed that the Bishop was pronouncing it quite distinctly as Guadalcanar, as some daily papers in New Zealand have always spelt it, and not as Guadalcanal. We asked him whether one was right, and the other wrong. "Well, we always spell: it with the r," he said, "although it’s spelt with an | on all the Admiralty charts. It’s a Spanish name, of course, and I suppose it was given to the island by Mendanathe Spanish explorer, who came to the Solomons in the 16th century. I don’t know that it means anything in particular-it’s probably the name of some Spanish town. I think the letters r and I were interchanged in quite a lot of words in old Spanish, so you can take your pick." 4
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 11
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151An El Or An Ar? New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 11
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