O Cebreiro not O'Cebreiro

[Bert45]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

 

[SabsP]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

Ohh post of the week! Cheers @Bert45 Love it!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

Possibly the ones spelling it incorrectly are Irish....and you won't know who they are on the Camino.

 

[SabsP]

Possibly the ones spelling it incorrectly are Irish....and you won't know who they are on the Camino.

And then of course dissapointed the local bar at "O Ceb " does not have Guinness on tap!
Luckily our Irish friends are good sports!

 

[dougfitz]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

You must really dislike Brierley then!!!

 

[Bert45]

You must really dislike Brierley then!!!

Oh yes! I started a thread about it to discover how it started, and he got the blame. But I also had a look at my sello from the municipal albergue in O Cebreiro (2003) and found it said "O'Cebreiro". He is also to blame for some confusion between cruceiro just out of Burguete and the White Cross, and the appearance of a "vision" of the BVM in an oak tree at Ponferrada rather than an actual figure of the BVM.

 

[Esperanza]

I have found that Brierley has all the accuracy and detail that one would expect of a mystic.

 

[dick bird]

I am having strange sensations of déja vu.

 

[Bert45]

This thread made more sense, and was funnier, when the posts (beginning with my pet peeve) followed another thread that began with BROWNCOUNTYBOB's pet peeve in which he referred to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro.

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

I thought it was Ole Cebreiro

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I have found that Brierley has all the accuracy and detail that one would expect of a mystic.

I don't care! Brierley's maps rock! They are simple to look at for a quick overview and are still my favorite in paper form. I don't really care if they are off a kilometer "here or there" cuz I get there eventually. As for his mysticism...I pass on by.

 

[Esperanza]

@Camino Chrissy I agree completely, especially about the maps. It’s just if you’re using a guide book by a self proclaimed mystic, it’s a buyer beware situation.

 

[wayfarer]

This thread made more sense, and was funnier, when the posts (beginning with my pet peeve) followed another thread that began with BrowncountyBob's pet peeve in which he referred to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro.

BrowncountyBob's thread was about pilgrims blocking the trail and was not intended as being funny, not about silly grammatical spelling mistakes, that is why they were moved to their own thread.

 

[Former member 31048]

On thé positive side … life’s pretty good if that ranks as a pet peeve

 

[Turga]

O' boy! Here we go again

 

[André Walker]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

Oh Cebreiro.

 

[VNwalking]

I am having strange sensations of déja vu.

I as well.

 

[Kathar1na]

And is it: We arrived in O Cebreiro or We arrived in Cebreiro? Tomorrow we will walk to O Cebreiro or Tomorrow we will walk to Cebreiro?

 

[pelerine]

You arrived in O Cebreiro, I think...

 

[Former member 99026]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

Why?
I see it's wrong but is it really such a big issue?
If this is your biggest worry in life, you must be doing quite well.
I'll try to not make that mistake again, but with dyslexia (why such a hard word to spell?) I'm not making any guarantees. Especially when Brierley has the apostrophe.
Buen Camino

 

[trecile]

Perhaps it would be helpful if people understood what the O in O Cebreiro means.
It's the masculine definite article in galician/galego.
So O Cebreiro means The Cebreiro. (I don't know if Cebreiro has an English translation)
And A is the feminine definite article, as in A Coruña.

 

[shefollowsshells]

Funny I never knew it didn’t have an apostrophe!!!! Both both Frances , I passed it by… and when I type it I’ve found my lazy self writing O’Cebrio… so I’m sure to be upsetting- lol.
Both Frances I walked on to Triacastela…

 

[Mark L]

Read this and immediately (and somewhat worryingly) thought of ….

O Cebreiro, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.

sad but then …

 

[walkinglover]

Possibly the ones spelling it incorrectly are Irish....and you won't know who they are on the Camino.

Brierley's books spell it O'Cebreiro and not as you have it. It is also pronounced oh-thay-bray-air-o. And when googling your spelling, the spelling always comes up as Brierley has it.

 

[walkinglover]

Funny I never knew it didn’t have an apostrophe!!!! Both both Frances , I passed it by… and when I type it I’ve found my lazy self writing O’Cebrio… so I’m sure to be upsetting- lol.
Both Frances I walked on to Triacastela…

When you Google, oce. . . O'C comes up. Brierley also spells it with an apostrophe. What is the reliable source for spelling it another way? I will check my photo book to see how the sign for the entrance to town has it.

 

[trecile]

Brierley's books spell it O'Cebreiro and not as you have it

Brierly is wrong.

And when googling your spelling, the spelling always comes up as Brierley has it.

It does???

 

[trecile]

When you Google, oce. . . O'C comes up. Brierley also spells it with an apostrophe. What is the reliable source for spelling it another way? I will check my photo book to see how the sign for the entrance to town has it.

You need to Google "O Cebreiro" - the proper galician spelling of the place, with a space between the O and the C.
Perhaps a Spanish site will convince you?

O Cebreiro - Triacastela | Camino Francés | Gronze.com

Primera etapa plenamente gallega, por la Sierra de Ancares; avanzamos básicamente por pistas de tierra, siguiendo el eje de la carretera provincial LU-633. Hasta el Alto do Poio, que alcanzamos en un corto y fuerte repecho, los desniveles son moderados pero frecuentes; luego, hasta Triacastela...

www.gronze.com

 

[Kathar1na]

Brierley also spells it with an apostrophe. What is the reliable source for spelling it another way?

The spelling for O Cebreiro in Brierley's guidebooks is not consistent. You can find both the spelling with an apostrophe (wrong) and without an apostrophe (correct) on the same page in some editions. Yes, there is an official spelling. The correct spelling is what Galician regional law and Spanish national law says. The name of the town is spelled O Cebreiro.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Brierley's books spell it O'Cebreiro and not as you have it. It is also pronounced oh-thay-bray-air-o. And when googling your spelling, the spelling always comes up as Brierley has it.

I definitely think using the apostrophe "looks" better to my American eyes. The O standing alone looks odd to me, even though it is correct.

 

[Kathar1na]

I see it's wrong but is it really such a big issue?
If this is your biggest worry in life, you must be doing quite well.

Whether foreigners who don't speak the language get place names in foreign countries wrong or not - no, it is not a big issue at all.

There are some, though, who take an interest in the things that they notice when travelling and sometimes they try to understand why something is the way it is and not different. And sometimes it is not trivial when you look at the story behind it.

 

[trecile]

O Cebreiro on a Camino marker.



On Google Maps

 

[basquelady]

My pet peeve is the number of people who refer to O Cebreiro as O'Cebreiro .

For goodness sake! Get a life!

 

[SabsP]

For goodness sake! Get a life!

The OP was a tongue in cheek reference to another thread about a pet peeve.

 

[Former member 99026]

Whether foreigners who don't speak the language get place names in foreign countries wrong or not - no, it is not a big issue at all.

There are some, though, who take an interest in the things that they notice when travelling and sometimes they try to understand why something is the way it is and not different. And sometimes it is not trivial when you look at the story behind it.

Oh, yes, very much agree with the sentiments. It's just I'm not a wordy person, but numbers now ...
I'm also a total sucker for information boards while I'm out walking

 

[Kathar1na]

I'm also a total sucker for information boards while I'm out walking

. That makes two of us.

I sometimes photograph information boards to read them later.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'm also a total sucker for information boards while I'm out walking

Me, too, but by the time I get home and look through my photos, I find my curiosity on those board pictures is usually a thing of the past and I've already lost some of my initial interest.

 

[Marc S.]

My pet peeve did make a lot more sense and was funnier when it followed BROWNCOUNTYBOB's "Senda Pet Peeve" (q.v.)

No worries, your pet peeve still makes sense and I can totally relate to it. (have to admit though I have the tendency to get lost in trivia and seemingly useless bits of information)

 

[C clearly]

This thread has become unnecessarily confrontational over a trivial matter. Some posts have been deleted and the thread closed.

We can all try to demonstrate the correct spelling of O Cebreiro in future, but there will be those who continue to make this mistake. And others ("albergue" comes to mind) .