Talk:Mosquito Island

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Caribbean Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Caribbean, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to Caribbean, and areas of North America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-class on the quality scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
Assessment comments This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

[edit] Misspeling

According to [1], it says that Moskito Islad (often mistakenly referred to as "Mosquito" Island) in a...

THree fore, i feel we should add this info in.--Coin945 (talk) 04:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

It has been spelled both ways over the years. The oldest charts all tended to spell it "Moskito", although there are also a number of pretty old chart on public display in the BVI (ie. in the old Government House museum) that refer to it as "Mosquito" island, and modern charts almost all refer to it as "Mosquito" island. I don't know whether the implication is that the word mosquito was just spelled differently in ye olden days. Richard Branson has exhibited a preference for referring to it as "Moskito" island (and as the owner, his views count for something), but it is a bit tricky to say which is "correct". My own view is that "Moskito" is probably more correct (probably with a redirect from the other spelling), but a section on the alternative names is certainly appropriate. --Legis (talk - contribs) 20:55, 19 March 2008 (UTC)