Storm Jorge To Hit This Weekend

[ChillDoubt]

In line with recent storm names, I wondered what had happened to FGH and I?
Apparently it’s because this one has been named by the Spanish Met Office:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51664372

Batten down the hatches again folks.....

[gingejbee]

The Spaniards got first dibs....3T will no doubt blame the "EUSSR"....

[237SJ]

I can't help thinking that if the storms hadn't been given names, there wouldn't be so much hype about them. I can remember some really bad storms in our area (500 ft over the Atlantic coast) when I was a child but they didn't have names and we just got on with it.

[Theland]

We used to call it bloody weather.

[237SJ]

^Exactly

[douglas9401]

If los Espanols can be prevailed upon to go with the next alphabetically and female we may yet have El Thpeth.

[ToraToraTora]

they can't even spell George! anyway I assume it's pronounced HorHay so both J and G are pronounced as if H in Spanish so what do they use when they want a Gee sound?

[Zacs-Master]

Hor gay, I believe

[jim360]

// Not another.....I saw a report that it was estimated that storm Dennis cost Britain nigh on a billion quid. What a waste of money.//

I needed to read that twice before I got it :)

[douglas9401]

They use a G, Tora.

[ToraToraTora]

but that's an H, eg Jorge Lorenzo the biker racer is called HorHay should that be Gorhay or HorGay? are the TV commentators wrong?

[douglas9401]

No, you just don't thpeak Thpanith.

[THECORBYLOON]

Heard "George" being pronounced in Argentinian Spanish on YouTube and it sounded like "Zhorj".

There must be any number of foreign names that English-speaking folk have problems pronouncing.

[fender62]

names mean nothing, whens it going to stop raining, my garden looks like a swamp, the fence is...destroyed.