One possible compromise solution, that is also very common and avoids all the (São, Sao, Santo, San, Saint, St., Sto, etc.) is to simply abbreviate it always down to one letter:
S. Miguel S. Jorge S. Maria The first two are actually quite common. Usually Santo/Santa gets abbreviated to Sto/Sta, however.. João On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:05:46 PM UTC+2, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Spelling was always one of my strong subjects, so try really hard not to > let misspellings bother me, but in this case I really need to speak up. > > The Azores are a part of Portugal, not Spain. The language of the Azores > and Portugal is Portuguese, not Spanish. > > The word for saint in Portuguese is Sao (properly, it's São). The word > for saint in Spanish is San. > > I know there are many areas of the U.S. that touch the Mexican border and > for those of us in these areas, we may encounter the Spanish language more > frequently, so we may not even notice the San instead of Sao, since San is > so familiar to us. They even have lots of cities named in Spanish after > saints (San Francisco is one). > > So if you are in the habit of typing San on this list, or are new to > Portuguese genealogy and didn't realize the difference, please put a > post-it on your computer that says: Sao Miguel, Sao Jorge, or Sao whatever > (if that is your freguesia). > > People write me and say, for example, that they remember a post about Sao > Vicente on Sao Miguel and they can't find it in the archive. So I search > the archive by typing in Sao Vicente and Sao Miguel and I can't find it > either. Then I have to play around with the San and even sometimes the > translation into English. > > Please, please, please, stick with the Portuguese spelling! > > P.S. On Sao Miguel...it's MiGuel...a G in there...not a Q. That one > makes the message impossible to find in the archive. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
