Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
It's not an easy to pronounce name generally. Some Spanish, some German, some French, some English, fine. But the selections need to be reasonably universal in ease.
Ah, but the conventions that govern naming complicate things. There are only so many easily pronounceable (to English speakers, I guess) male names that start with I, several of them have already been retired (Ivan, Ike, Igor), and they cannot be repeated for 6 (or 8? I don't remember which) years.
I don't think ease really matters all that much when it comes to storm names anyway. Other than newscasters, who have to pronounce unusual and unfamiliar names in the course of the job fairly often, there's really not a ton of urgency for being able to refer to a storm by name (there usually isn't more than one that is relevant at any given time...) or to do so with unfailing accuracy (pretty sure if you said "Hurricane Isaias" but pronounced it like the plural of Isiah people would know what you meant).