06-01-2017, 09:38 AM
(06-01-2017, 07:53 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(06-01-2017, 07:15 AM)MidTowner Wrote: How can it rhyme with both? There's no 'I' after the first 'R,' so I don't think it could rhyme with 'riviera.'
'Carerra,' 'Ferrero,' 'Virerra,' these are proper nouns (I'm assuming Virerra is a surname, and not just made out of thin air) from other languages and are a bit hard to pronounce in English. It's not the end of the world; I just don't think it's a good name for a development.
I'd feel better knowing for sure it was honouring an actual person (I think Cortés was, for instance). If they did pick it for the name's actual qualities, they could have done much better.
"AIR-ah". The last two syllables rhyme in each case, n'est-ce pas.
By the way, am I correct in thinking that "Cortés" is correctly pronounced "Core-TASE"?
Kind of... it is pronounced Cor-tEs "(with a very solid "e", instead of "ey")