

Yeah, “Santo” is the better example. I’m actually not sure if there’s any particular distinction for why sme place names are “San” and other are “Santo”, perhaps it comes from historical baggage from whichever branches of explorers / conquerers founded each town.








My understanding is we have the Dutch to blame for that as they named him “Sante” and Spanish-speaking countries adapted the sound into “a” for whatever reason. Basically it’s “whole” proper name derived from elsewhere.