"Mexico er et land sør for USA."

Translation: Mexico is a country south of the USA.

[Borowayan]

"Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the United States"

[NilMarkas]

Det er én av mine favoritt sitater ^^

[ElMartscho]

Why is Mexico the only country written with a 'c' instead of a 'k'

[fveldig]

'Canada' is also written with a c. If it's a distant country it usually retains the spelling from that country.

People from Canada are called "kanadiere" and people from Mexico are called "meksikanere", however.

[tylernorsk]

That is tripping me up with the spelling changing for the nationalities, but not the countries themselves.

[fveldig]

C, Q, W, X, Z are uncommon letters only found in loanwords, proper nouns and proper names. Nationalities aren't proper nouns in Norwegian, and are written with a lower cased first letter.

[effyleven]

Thank you Leon, for your comment. It is most helpful.

[pablopublico]

I wrote Meksiko. =(

[effyleven]

So did I ... (sigh)

[Nikautob]

Is there a difference between sør and syd?

[deactivated user]

These weird country spellings are killing me.