Now I am confused, I always thought that a vowel in order to make the short sound needed an E or a twin/double consonant after it like in the words game and gamma? I looked up bandana and it is spelled both ways bandana and bandanna and one of the sites I looked at said many words are mis-spelled or mis-pronounced when two root words are joined as case in point american and araucana. I do realize that the word in question is spelled many different ways but I believe for it to be pronounced the most popular way it is pronounced it should be spelled the way I originally spelled it. Not to belabor the point but if you pronounce the word ameraucana properly to its spelling it would be pronounced a-mare-awe(au sound) cane-uh. I think someone familiar with real English would tell you that we are mis-pronouncing ameraucana. And for arguments sake type in bandana and hit spell-check and Ameraucana..
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Nope. Think "bandana." Not "banDAYna." And definitely not Carlos SanTAYna.
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Nope. Think "bandana." Not "banDAYna." And definitely not Carlos SanTAYna.
Answer part 1: Ameraucanas were developed from Araucanas. Araucanas come from South America. The pronunciation of Araucana would be based on Spanish linguistics, not English, as would the Ameraucana.
Answer part 2: This is why people who speak Spanish cringe when they hear an English speaker pronounce Spanish based on English linguistics. Example: the word "burrito." Most Americans (Americauns?
) say "BURR-ee-toe" when the correct pronunciation would be "boo-RREE-toh."
Answer part 3: My name is Ana. It is NOT pronounced AYna.
My banker is from South Wales and she is constantly reminding me that the language Americans ? speak is not English. She says we have too many "slang" words that are not proper english and we combine words and then mis-pronounce them regularly. I will ask her about the word Ameraucana v. Ameracauna and see what she says. My son has taken 5 years of spanish and tells me some words have no translation and therefore are transliterated or something resembling that. Just out of mere curiosity how is Ana different than Anna?
