Talk:Mérida, Yucatán

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• Race: "Slow paced, witty, romantic and happy."
• Weather: "... May and June are simply awful. The locals hide at the beaches of Progreso during the summer ..."

As a yucatecan I find these descriptions racist, innacurate and stereotypical and I'm pretty sure most people would agree with me, so I deleted them.

Also, I don't think "Mérida is well known for its excellent hammocks, which do not stretch when you use them" is encyclopedic material, it's more like a tourist impression on souvenir stores so that's gone too.

I would like to correct this instead of deleting it but my english right now is not good enough to write for an encyclopedia.

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I'm not qualified to comment on the "race" line, but I have heard elsewhere that the young people of Merida _do_ flee to Progreso during the summer (this was in August, though) -- can you comment? thanks, jdb ❋ (talk) 08:14, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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Could someone explain how the name of this town is pronounced?

http://www.cyclingforums.com/showthread.php?t=195487&page=2&pp=15 suggests he proper pronunciation would be meeh-ri-da as in the Spanish language the stress would be on the "e". The Spanish spelling of Merida has an accent over the e meaning the e is stressed.

but http://www.answers.com/topic/m-rida-yucat-n and the American Heritage Dictionary, Mé·ri·da (mĕr'ĭ-də, mĕ'rē-dä) pronunciation

On the Same answers.com page

Mérida (mā'rēthä) from the Columbia University Press

What's going on?

Accent is indeed on the first sylable, with vowels pronounced as usual for Spanish. I think the "th" may refer to pronunciation the one in Spain, not this one. -- Infrogmation 03:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)