2023-12-21 12:35:57
On the occasion of the Christmas raffle, which is celebrated in Spain on December 22, it is worth remembering the proper writing of some terms related to it.
1. Uppercase and lowercase
They are written with initial lower case lottery, draw, award, tenth, ticket, serie, pedrea, stake o reintegratesince these are common names, and with capital initial name Niño in the expressions lottery o Child’s draw.
In lottery o christmas giveaway, Christmas It can be written with a capital or lowercase letter, as it refers to the ‘time between Christmas Eve and the Three Wise Men’s holiday’, although, according to the Dictionary of the Spanish languagethe usual thing is to write with an initial capital letter.
However, when referring to the official names Extraordinary Christmas Raffle y Extraordinary Child Drawall words are written with a capital initial.
2. The jackpot y Fat
Regarding the term gordois generally written with a lowercase initial (the jackpot, the lottery jackpot…), although it is possible to use the capital letter when it is used to designate the prize par excellence: «My brother has had Fat».
3. Number, ticket, series y tenth
The use of words number, ticket, serie y tenthwhich in these draws have specific meanings, usually gives rise to mistakes.
Number It is each of the 100,000 that enter the draw, represented by a ball (from 00,000 to 99,999). For each of these numbers, 170 are issued in the Extraordinary Christmas Draw. tickets who are given a number of serie and they have a value of 200 euros each. Each bill is divided into ten. tenths of 20 euros, each of them identified with a number of fraction.
4. trumpet, bass drum y lira
Some of the elements of the raffle receive specific names, such as bass drums that welcome the balls of numbers and prizes. Before the draw, the balls are placed in displays or lire for verification. Every time a ball leaves the bass drum, it slides down the call trumpet until the copa glass, from which the children take it to sing it and then leave it in the boards.
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