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¡Feliz Diada Nacional de Catalunya!

Posted by (northern CA) on

Today is the 205th anniversary of the events in 1714 that are celebrated as National Day in Catalunya.

It's a mixed commemoration -- the end of a 14-month siege of Barcelona when King Philip V beat back the Hapsburgs, but the beginning of more repression of Catalan independence by the Bourbons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia
Nowadays it's celebrated by displaying the national flag and laying flowers to commemorate important military figures in Catalan history.

Posted by
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Thanks for pointing out the error, Bill - I was too quick on the draw,
and I also wanted to pat myself on the back for figuring out how to do the upside-down exclamation point :-)

Do you have any thoughts, since you were so good in your orthography, why people in California pronounce it as though it had a tilde?

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