Normative Spelling in Spanish
México is the predominant Spanish spelling variant used throughout Latin America, and universally used in Mexican Spanish, whereas Méjico is used infrequently in Spain and Argentina. During the 1990s, the Real Academia Española recommended that México be the normative spelling of the word and all its derivatives, even though this spelling does not match the pronunciation of the word. Since then, the majority of publications adhere to the new normative in all Spanish-speaking countries even though the disused variant can still be found. The same rule applies to all Spanish toponyms in America, and on some occasions in the Iberian Peninsula, even though in most co-official or regional languages of Spain (Asturian, Leonese and Catalan), the x is still pronounced .
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