Posted on 02/19/2016 6:22:47 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
On this evening's O'Reilly Factor, Geraldo Rivera scolded guest host Eric Bolling for pronouncing the state of Nevada as Ne-VA-da. Condescendingly instructed Rivera: "It's a Spanish word, Ne-VAH-da. Gringo."
There's just one problem. When it comes to pronouncing the name of the state, and not the Spanish word, Bolling was right and Rivera was wrong: "The only acceptable pronunciation of the state is 'Nev-AD-a,' not 'Nev-AH-da.' Pronouncing the state’s name incorrectly can draw ire among residents."--Time magazine.
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New Mexico has the right to use Spanish as even their constitution was in Spanish. Nevada, not so much. Gerry Rivers is just a racist, always has been a liberal.
You could always tell tourists in TX or CA when they ordered a `tawco’.
Natives asked for tacos using a Mexican a, like the a in `a**whole’.
Why is that sorry excuse still on?
I turn him off, too. Juan Williams is the most I can handle.
plural gringos
often disparaging : a foreigner in Spain or Latin America especially when of English or American origin; broadly : a non-Hispanic person
Bolling is owed an apology from Selfie-man.
Jerry Rivers better start dusting off the correct pronunciation of “Ow Ow Ow ...stop punching me in the face”
Gringo is a racist term. It is only fair for you to reply in kind.
Yes.
Well., having spent a good portion of my life in the northern and southern part of the state I would venture to say that I have always pronounced it Ne-Vad-Da.
He’d be really bummed out if he came to Na-VAY-duh, Iowa (or even MAD-drid, Iowa).
Is it peCAHN or PEEcan or peCAN?
-JT
He didn’t really pronounce it the Spanish way. In Spanish, the “e” would be as in “mesa,” the “v” would be “harder” than the “v” in English, more like a “b,” the “d” would be “softer,” closer to the “th” in “that,” and the final “a” would be pronounced as in the English word “all.”
No, because he apparently is not Hispanic--Rivers, his real name, doesn't sound Spanish.
Geraldo is of Jewish and Hispanic heritage.
He claims to be Puerto Rican
It’s “Nev-Ad-a” that’s correct. It’s not a Spanish noun, but a Spanish adjective that means “Snow-covered” or better, “Snowy”.
The name was chosen by Nevada state representatives in Washington DC during the Civil War. The name was taken from the Juan Batista de Anza expedition’s cartographer who wrote the adjective “snow-covered” on his map when the expedition got to a high vantage point in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1774 to see what was on the other side. They looked out over the Great Basin and saw snowy mountains all the way over the distant horizon and turned around back to San Francisco. Didn’t even try to cross it, which was ultimately a good idea. They’d never have made it.
There’s Coloradans who insist that the correct pronounciation for their state is “Colo-RAD-o”.
It's really a hoot when Obama tortures the word "Pakistan" to try to get it to sound like "Pokeman".
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