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Its "Ney-vada" not Ner-vada. Y eso es espanol no es de Gringolandia.

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Yup, ya got them backwards :) I was kind of like 'eh?' It's easy enough to do, though!

I usually have to interpret for the DH - he actually had a fast food worker look at him and say 'yer not from around here, are yew?'. :blink: I mean, he's northern irish, but the accent isn't THAT difficult to understand (well, okay, the Ballymena and Derry accents are a bit thick but hey! ;) ).

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I was with 3 (non-hispanic) Americans tonight, so I asked them which state Vegas was in....after the predictable rolling of eyes at the dumb foreigner in their midst, they all said it how I would have done...which is not like either of your options! More like Nuhvada.... I think....or maybe like your 2nd option but without the "r" sound...

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Everyone I know in California pronounces Nevada as Nuh-Vada.

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Same here on the east coast/ south east as far as I can tell, ..... a "Nuh" or a "Nah" kinda sound, and I've never heard anything like a "Ner", nor a "Ney" for that matter. :confused:

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Yep, same here (CT).

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Have a listen here:

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/nevada.

My point, perhaps not explained well: Non-spanish speaking Merkans use the anglicised form "Ner-vada" as British folks naturally will or "Nuh-varda" further west, like in California where I am.

I only mentioned it as someone was questioning the issue of an alternative pronunciation, which I know being a Spanish speaker. Perhaps my attempt at phonetic spelling was bad. Spanish "e" being more of an "i" sound.

The Nevada Tourist board led with a campaign a while back that was about how the locals pronounce it, which is as the correct Spanish form. I don't know how it gets butchered and by who, I just know Spanish. Nada mas, eso es :-)

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Lol....I'm really bad at accents, cos that lady sounded more South African or antipodean to me!

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Actually, its not a great American accent, i.e from this continent, although there are numerous dialects. Hence my original spelling Ney-vada.

Lots of Hispanoblantes in your "friendly" Tejas to ask and practice!

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But it does beg the question, if we are supposed to use the Spanish pronunciation of Nevada, do we do the same with tex/jas, and how about Paris TX, New Orleans etc etc.... gonna get mighty confusing!

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Do as the locals.

I only wrote about Nevada as someone raised the issue of a different way to say it.

And I only wrote Tejas (Te-has) to be friendly and as I expect you know that's where Texas comes from...Tejas = friend in Spanish :-)

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Round here, it's hard to find a local! But when you do, some of them say tejas, and some texas...(.did I read somewhere that a native Spanish speaker struggles to say the "x" sound...or is that somewhere else.....). There are a lot of contracting companies that use Tejas i/o Texas, but whether that is to get around some restrictions on state use in corporate names, or to appeal to a certain market, I'm not sure.
The kids are taught in school that tejas actually came from a Caddo Indian word meaning allies (also roof tile:confused:), and was later adopted by the Spanish. I've got to say, wherever it came from, it is a lot easier on the ear than the other one sometimes heard...Texian:scaredhair:

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Right, tejas is tile. Tejas is an Indian corruption. I didn't Know about the Caddo. Thx.

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I learned a lot as the kids went through 1st,2nd,3rd grades....:D

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Nuh-VAD-uh, or Nee-VAD-uh. Not Knee-Var-Dar. It's a Spanish word, and the "r" in Spanish is a rolling "r". There is no "r" in Nevada. Americans usually get it right, never met a visiting Brit who did.