Talk:El Dedo de Dios

A couple of days ago, the El Dedo De Dios article was moved to El Dedo de Diós. In Spanish, accents are used to denote which syllable to place the emphasis on when pronouncing the word, so the rule is that words with only one syllable, like "Dios", don't have an accent placed on them - it's just not needed. --kb 16:21, 16 January 2005 (UTC)
 * My apologies; I assumed that it was a dialectic preference for the Canary Islands when I saw it in the article. And, for reference, "Dios" has two (albeit slurred) syllables - Dee-OS. —Cuiviénen (Cuivië) 01:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, the i is more of a demivowel in this case (the Spanish form of the word). Ventifax

The 'i' is a weak vowel in Spanish and is only given an accent when mixed with one of the strong vowels (a,e,o) when there is a hiatus (the two vowels form separate syllalbes). In the word "dios" it is a diphthong and the vowels are the same sound. In the word "adiós" the accent falls on the 'o' because the stress falls on that syllable (a-dios). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayjase (talk • contribs) 08:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

See instead "Hand of God" - I believe it's the same article that you are asking for. --Stephen 08:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * How tall was it? --Mark J 10:23, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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69.17.67.11 13:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * None of those are free for use. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 19:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Very Small Changes
I have changed some things which seemed to be inappropriate or inaccurate: I have removed the word "magnificent" from the phrase "one of the magnificent monuments" and replaced it with "many". Wikipedia is, after all, an encyclopaedia and magnificent, in this case, seemed more emotive than descriptive. I have replaced the first reference to Agaete as a "city", which it is not because it's very small, and replaced it with "town". The word town is used further down anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayjase (talk • contribs) 08:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)