“subregional”, with an “r”, not “subregional”

by time news

2023-11-09 11:42:54

The R is never doubled after a consonant, even if it has a strong vibrating sound, so it is not subrregionalsino subregional.

In the media, however, you can sometimes find phrases such as the following: “Her management in the national and subregional elections stood out”, “She is a photographer born in the Ciudad Real town of Puertollano” or “Numerous economic activities are deregulated.”

After the consonants l, n y s The R is always pronounced strongly, although due to spelling economy it is not doubled: around, entangle, Israelite. It also usually has this sound when a voice that begins with r an element is prefixed by prefixation or composition that ends in any consonant, and, in this case, as the Panhispanic dictionary of doubts, it continues to be written without duplication: deratize, postromantic.

This rule always applies, even if the first element ends in the letters b, d, c, k, f, g, p y t, after which the R normally has the simple soft sound. Therefore, the R cannot be double after a consonantregardless of how it is pronounced, but only between vowels.

In contrast, if the first element or prefix ends in a vowel, it is written rrlike in counter-reformation o lightning rods.

Therefore, in the previous examples the appropriate thing would have been “She highlighted her management in the national and subregional elections”, “She is a photographer born in the Ciudad Real town of Puertollano” and “Numerous economic activities are deregulated.”

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