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Originally Posted by fruit_cake
as far as I'm aware, technically the 'Malvinas' is actually derived from a French name, it's not Spanish at all.
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Hate to burst your balloon Fruit cake.
The word may have been derived from a French word originally, but it was changed and is now and has been in use in Spanish speaking countries for a long long time.
Technically that makes its a Spanish word.
Interestingly enough the islands were named after the sound in 1690. By an Englishman using the name Falkland. French Settler's werent there till around 1760.
Another interesting fact this time about languages, about 28% of the English language is derived from French words, does that mean we stop calling those affected words english ones?