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The millionaire who never laughs. The millionaire with an unpronouncable name more like.

This question has been bugging me for a very long time now. In fact ever since I first read Flight 714 – just how do you pronounce Carreidas?
As a kid I said carr-ee-eye-a-dis. Now years later it is more car-ee-das.
Is there is a consensus of opinion as to how it should sound?
I shouldn't let it annoy me but you know, the simplest things...!

Does he have the same name in other languages?

Cheers
Ranko

I would pronounce his name, carr-ey (as in hey)-das (as in does) but that's probably because that is the way they pronounce it on the Swedish record.

I say Kah-rey-duhs and you say Ker-ree-a-das, let's call the whole thing off... ;-)

Thanks Harrock. That's the kind of perspective I needed...

He'll be Laszlo from now on. :-)

Ranko.

Since his surname is a pun on the French carré d'as ("four aces", as in a pack of cards) wouldn't it be pronounced the same - kah-ray-dass?

Richard wrote: Since his surname is a pun on the French carré d'as (four aces, as in a pack of cards) wouldn't it be pronounced the same - kah-ray-dass?

Interesting, I wasn't actually aware of this! After trawling the 'net I found out about a symbol on the tail-fin of the Carreidas 160 aircraft which shows the four suits from a deck of cards.

It's not very distinct in the Flight 714 book but here's a blow-up of some lettering taken from Roger Leloup's cutaway diagram of the jet.

So yes, I think it would be pronounced kar-reɪ-dæs - unless someone with a better grasp of French and phonetics knows better..?

Harrock n roll
Richard wrote: Since his surname is a pun on the French carré d'as (four aces, as in a pack of cards) wouldn't it be pronounced the same - kah-ray-dass?

I always heard it pronounced [ka-re-da:s] in French -not [ka-re-daes], i.e. just like "carre d'as", as mentioned earlier by Richard.

Go to the French-language video clip for Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney) on Tintin.com and you'll hear the pronunciation. Yamilah's way of writing it out is probably the closest.

Thanks for all of your input. It has helped.

It sounds a lot more exotic than my Carreiaiadaias!

Ranko.