Talk:John de Britto

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Change "Brito" to "Britto"[edit]

Most authoritative documents that I have examined spell the name with two t's: "Britto" not "Brito". The documents spelling it "Britto" include:

  • de Britto, Fernando Pereira (brother of John de Britto) (1852) [1722]. Historia do nascimento, vida e martyrio do Beato João de Britto da Companhia de Jesus, Martyr da Asia, e protomartyr da missâo do Maduré (in Portuguese) (2nd ed.). Lisbon: A. S. Monteiro. ISBN 9781142042844. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Public Domain Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Blessed John de Britto". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

The only one I have found spelling it "Brito" that looks reasonably authoritative is:

I therefore propose to change the name of this article from "John de Brito" to "John de Britto". Wideangle (talk) 21:13, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In modern Portuguese his name is always spelled Brito. Some english language sources still use the ancient Portuguese form of his name. Nowadays in modern Portuguese he appears exclusively as João de Brito.Mistico (talk) 19:02, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This is the English-language Wikipedia. Nobody has offered any counterexamples, so I suggest the change from "Brito" to "Britto" be made. Mksword (talk) 23:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 July 2016[edit]

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Although there was a stub at the target before this article was created and a history merge would be possible, the previous stub doesn't seem to have contributed to this article, so it's not necessary... sadly. Andrewa (talk) 07:38, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]


John de BritoJohn de Britto – In the English language, "John de Britto" is usually spelled with two t's. In Google Books, "John de Britto" gets 3440 hits whereas "John de Brito" gets 1010 hits. See the article's talk page for further arguments. Mksword (talk) 00:09, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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