Talk:My Ántonia

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do you know of any online literary critics of this book? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.188.117.68 (talk • contribs) 21:38 23 September 2005.

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. BTW, diacritics don't hurt... ;) —Nightstallion (?) 08:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

My Antonia → My Ántonia – Requesting a move to the novel's correct title. --Muchness 02:13, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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  • Support per nom. David Kernow 03:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose: accent unneeded. Thumbelina 18:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Support: no reason not to use correct accents, and it will encourage the rest of Wikipedia to spell the name right.--Prosfilaes 21:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Version with accent is more informative. Haukur 00:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Common English usage --Philip Baird Shearer 14:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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  • about 19,500 English pages for -"My Antonia" "My Ántonia" Cather -wikipedia
  • about 204,000 English pages for "My Antonia" -"My Ántonia" Cather -wikipedia

--Philip Baird Shearer 14:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Version with accent is more informative. Haukur 00:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

How? --Philip Baird Shearer 14:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
It suggests that the accent is on the first syllable rather than the second. Haukur 15:14, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
That's skewed by the fact that we are talking about an accent, which in casual typing usually won't be used. All of the references scholar.google.com turned up that I looked at that weren't transcribed, the accent was used. (Note that I searched for My Antonia, and it found many versions with the accent, so there's no easy way to count here.) It's the name of a English book; since we're arguing over one accent, why not go with the correct version?--Prosfilaes 04:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
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