Talk:Fernando Consag

Spelling
Most of the Croatian sites I look at spell it Kon&#353;&#263;ak (with c-acute; 182 hits) which seems to be the ordinary hr. spelling, but with older names it may be hard to tell. It's not encouraging that the majority of Google hits for Kon&#353;&#269;ak (with c-caron; 65 hits, 6 in Croatian) are en.Wikipedia & its mirrors. Are we more accurate to start with, or have the Croatians got it right? &mdash;Muke Tever 15:36, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't know for sure, but Konš&#263;ak would be more shtokavian and Konš&#269;ak would be more kajkavian. The former is official, but the person is from an area where the latter dialect is spoken, so it's a tough call :)
 * I was recently somewhat surprised to see that a neighbourhood of Zagreb is officially written Medveš&#263;ak rather than Medveš&#269;ak, which I thought was the native version.
 * It's possible that the standard language has morphed these "-shchack" suffixes, but it's also possible that the local dialect wouldn't require distinguishing the "ch" sounds into two different letters and doesn't mind. (Slovene, which is related, doesn't distinguish.)
 * BTW I doubt we'll get an answer from the creator of the page, it's a peculiar anonymous editor who I've never seen write anything on a Talk page. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   16:25, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)