[Leica] Spanish names

[johnbeeching at gmail.com (John Beeching)]

Dear Brian,

Lluis lives in Catalunya a part of Spain where they speak Catalan as opposed
to Castilian (Spanish).  Lluis is his name in Catalan and Luis in
Castilian.  Both versions of Lluis are pronounced approximately the same.
In Spain people have two surnames, one from their father and one from their
mother; so, in Lluis' case Ripoll is his father's and Querol is his
mother's.

John

2008/11/6 Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

> I've been wondering about this for a while, but now that Se?or Ripoll has
> won both first and second place in the contest, I'm going to ask.
>
> Lluis, I would enjoy seeing an explanation of why you have written your
> name so many diferent ways. For a few years it was "Luis Ripoll" and then 
> it
> was "Lluis Ripoll" and now it's "Lluis Ripoll Querol". Is "Querol" a
> matronymic? Is "Lluis" a nickname? Is "Lluis" pronounced the same as "Luis"
> or does the "ll" combination have a "y" sound?
>
>
>
>
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