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HelpRe: Thoughts on "Marita"
in reply to a message by Jason Malcolm
It's not made up. It's just a diminutive of Mary / Maria. Maritza is the one that is fairly popular at the moment so it seems to me to be sort of a variant of that. In a standard American accent Marita sounds a lot like Merida (the character in "Brave") and that's sort of a made up name, but I think it's pretty.
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It must be me, I must have really sloppy speech. I'd say Mah Ree Ta at first, but if I were talking fast and the name was familiar, I think it'd come out sounding very similar to Merida. Slightly softer D sound.
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It depends on how you pronounce Merida. Saying Marita sloppily would be mur-EE-da, but Merida would be MER-i-da based on how it was pronounced in "Brave".
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I say Merida too. And I'm the one that says "winter" with a "t", always.
These days, I preface "winter" with "un-ending".
These days, I preface "winter" with "un-ending".
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