Talk:Governor-General of the Philippines
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[edit] Dasmarinas versus das Marinas
It is very unlikely that Luis Pérez das Mariñas is the correct spelling of his name (as opposed to Luis Pérez Dasmariñas). The external link spells his surname without the space, and a Google search turns up about eight times as many hits that way than with the space. (And those with the space are mostly Wikipedia mirrors.) Also, there is a municipality in the Philippines named for him, and spelled without the space. Dos Mariñas would be more believable, but das is not a Spanish word, nor (as far as I know) a particle used in Spanish names.
The same arguments would apply to Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas.
--Rbraunwa 18:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)