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Post #763840 by arriano on Mon, May 16, 2016 8:54 AM

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On 2016-05-13 19:18, AceExplorer wrote:
The additional challenge for us is that there may be both an anglicized pronunciation, and a "native tongue" pronunciation for these terms.

Agreed. It's a former British colony, and the Brits just love to Anglicize foreign words. From Wikipedia:

The name "Demerara" comes from a variant of the Arawak word "Immenary" or "Dumaruni" which means "river of the letter wood".

Now, how do the Arawak pronounce it?