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71 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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71 months ago

   wrote:

orandzes

My comment:

He says "narancas" instead of "naranjas", so has trouble pronouncing the "j", which is similar to the [dj] sound of the "g" letter in "oranges".

You can change the "g" into a "z", for example. Or into a "dz": "orandzes".

A small child would pronounce the French word "orange" "oranze".

So a small child would pronounce the English word "orange" [orindj] as "orandze" [orindz].

The [j] sound is difficult to pronounce for a small child.

Cf pronunciation in WordReference/Collins: orange [ˈɒrɪndʒ]

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/orange

=> [ˈɒrɪndz], spelled "orandze(s)".

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71 months ago

   wrote:

Barbara, My first idea was to spell it "oranzes". Maybe it's better than "orandzes" since the "d" sound is not spelled out/written in English... Or just replace the "g" letter of "orange" by any consonant you like... Indeed, there is no pun/play on words in the Spanish word "narancas". By the way, the mymemory automatic translator immediately guessed it should be translated by "oranges" in English, but I checked in the WordReference translating dictionary: there doesn't seem to be such a word in Spanish: MeMemory: https://mymemory.translated.net/en/Spanish/English/Yvette-no-lo-recordaba%2C-pero-hab%C3%ADa-hablado-de-Olaf-cuando-deliraba-por-la-fiebre.-%E2%80%94-%C2%BFDe-qu%C3%A9-sirve-hablar-sobre-eso%3F-%E2%80%94-%C2%BFY-por-qu%C3%A9-ten%C3%ADa-narancas-en-su-poder%3F-No-creo-que-sea-una-fruta-de-estas-tierras.-%E2%80%94-Naranjas.-Es-una-fruta-muy-rica-que-se-cultiva-en-pa%C3%ADses-c%C3%A1lidos%2C-por-ejemplo%2C-en-Espa%C3%B1a.-Olaf-las-compr%C3%B3-en-el-mercado%2C-yo-no-las-hab%C3%ADa-comido-nunca-porque-son-muy-caras. : "And why did he have **oranges** in his possession?" and Wordreference: https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=naranca : "No English translation found for 'naranca'. Did you mean: naranja" (etc). It does not exist in the FreeDictionary: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/naranca and in the Wiktionary, "naranča" is a Serbo-Croatian word meaning... "orange", like... "nàrāndža" in Bosnian and Serbian... which corresponds to the slight mispronunciation which I suggested for the English word: "oranDZes"! :-) In your text, the correct words "anaranJado" and "naranJa" (in "Es naranja, una vez comí una que me regaló Olaf") are being pronounced TWICE in front of the person who ends up saying "naranCas", so that person has a memory problem and/or a pronunciation problem... All I know is that the "j" can be difficult to pronounce and that it is often replaced by "z" or "dz"...

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71 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

oranges [mispronounced]

My comment:

That is all I can think of & that is surely what it means

71 months ago

Clara Fernández   wrote:

I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you trying to find a mispronounciation of "oranges"?

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71 months ago

   wrote:

Yes, that's right, Clara.