| RIO GRANDE RIVER |
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RIO GRANDE |
Rio is Spanish for “river,” so “Rio Grande River” is a redundancy. Just
write “Rio Grande.” Non-Hispanic Americans have traditionally failed to
pronounce the final “E” in “Grande”, but they’ve learned to do it to
designate the large size of latte, so perhaps it’s time to start saying
it the proper Spanish way: “REE-oh GRAHN-day.” Or to be really
international we could switch to the Mexican name: “Rio Bravo.”
