fionamw

I'll no doubt get flack again for being intolerant but when advertisers can't be &rsed to get the voiceover actors to pronounce placenames correctly... notably Fuengirola, which more often than not is Fwengyroller..... grump grump

(on Spectrum, which we listen to when OH is in the car.... 9yo and I flick between M80 and Cadena100!!!!)

mind you, though I thought I understood the umlaut (not) rule of pronouncing the u, I got thoroughly confused when checking words I thought I knew and the dictionary did NOT make it clear. grump more grump.

Mitzyboy

Theres a town down the road called Piles. You just know how Brits around here pronounce it dont you.

JLFS

What a bum place to live.

Torrevieja is pronounced torrey-veck-ee-a.

fionamw

Mitzyboy

So tell me how you think a Spaniard would pronounce that wonderful Welsh town ...... Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch

JLFS

Easy...........

Iwould say..........Aw F**k it!!!!! but I cant speak for the rest of us.

BTW did you copy and paste, or do you know how to spell it?

jackytoo

I have never known a spaniard call an accent a tilde, although it is correct, only acento. Even if they spell a word on the phone.

fionamw

Well yes.... you start getting into our weirdly pronounced British words/place names it's a whole nother thread
*puffs up with pride at the restraint not starting a list*


Ref tilde.... maybe it's something only teachers do? Ours certainly does and another friend (who happens to be a teacher!) does....

steviedeluxe

I always thought tilde was the dash above the n, as in Niño. It came as a small surprise here to find out it describes all accents.

JLFS

Is that the Aussie sheila that is alway waltzing around?

Waltzin me Tilde....

lynnxa

the goch at the end would be the strong syllable

lynnxa

Spanish school text books call them tildes

maybe they are calling them acentos because they wouldn't expect a foreigner to know what a tilde is

cricketman

I agree with jackytoo here. Spanish people usually say acento e.g. "el acento en la "a" de Águilar"

Tilda is a written thing i.e. the actual name of the symbol

Mitzyboy

I think you probably know the answer to that

I'm not sure I'd actually get that far to worry about it

lynnxa

if you could get that far you wouldn't NEED to