Ca-nah-ve-rahl to me (overaccented second syllable ‘a’ from my Chicago accent). It’s always synonymous w/ Cape Canaveral to me, never thought about the origin.
I think you’ll find that most Americans, save for those with recent ancestral roots in your area, will have never encountered that word or the thing it refers to.
I mean, Cape Canaveral in Florida certainly isn’t pronounced like that, generally speaking, in English. Not for nothing that there’s no tilde.
I speak Spanish pretty well, I understand the origin of it, but English plays it pretty fast and loose with pronunciations of words from other languages. This is ESPECIALLY true for place names. You can find towns in different states with the exact same spellings but that are pronounced distinctly differently. It just is what it is.
Cañaveral is the origin of the English word Canaveral and the two are pronounced differently but correctly in each language. And both are pronounced differently than the original pronunciation in Latin.
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Maybe I’m ignorant but I have no idea what “canaveral” even is.
“Proper pronunciation” isn’t really a thing in English, else most words spoken in English would be pronounced differently than they are.
Also, the name of something is pronounced as the person who’s name it is pronounces it.
As in Cape Canaveral?
Because if so, we prounce it the way we pronounce it and that is a perfectly acceptable way to do so.
Ca-nah-ve-rahl to me (overaccented second syllable ‘a’ from my Chicago accent). It’s always synonymous w/ Cape Canaveral to me, never thought about the origin.
I think you’ll find that most Americans, save for those with recent ancestral roots in your area, will have never encountered that word or the thing it refers to.
I mean, Cape Canaveral in Florida certainly isn’t pronounced like that, generally speaking, in English. Not for nothing that there’s no tilde.
I speak Spanish pretty well, I understand the origin of it, but English plays it pretty fast and loose with pronunciations of words from other languages. This is ESPECIALLY true for place names. You can find towns in different states with the exact same spellings but that are pronounced distinctly differently. It just is what it is.
The ñ sound does not exist in English. Why would say it that way?
the way people pronounce their own language is the proper way. you sound arrogant and annoying.
This wasn’t on the long form Census in 2020.
I don’t know the origin, I don’t know why we would.
Cañaveral is the origin of the English word Canaveral and the two are pronounced differently but correctly in each language. And both are pronounced differently than the original pronunciation in Latin.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ca%C3%B1averal
I’ll pronounce it that way in Brazil
That may be the Spanish pronunciation. It isn’t the English pronunciation.
That’s not how language really works.
Like I am not saying gummi bear like they say in Germany and I’m not saying Sauna like they do in Finland.
You’d sound like an idiot.