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[Opinions] Re: Hortensia
by Pie
10/15/2010, 12:13 PM
in reply to a message by queenv
I like Hortense - when pronounced or-TONCE, and not 'whore tents'. Hortensia confuses me, as I don't know whether to say it or-TON-sha or whore tents-ee-a. There's something appealing about the first prn, but not so much the second.
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- abbasdaughter
10/15/2010, 8:32 PM
If going the Fr. route (and Hortense doesn't appeal to me w/ Fr. prn either), Hortensia would be more like or-ton-see-a and with a nasal sound rather than the sha sound...
Hadn't really thought of it as whore-tents before... That just makes the name even worse.
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