How is mallorca pronounced

Mallorca started to be a very popular tourist destination during the s, and the British started to fly to Mallorca to come on holiday.

We read an article that according to travel blogger Simpson, Majorca has its roots in Latin. After all it is the largest of the Balearic Islands. We have checked on Google trends , a free tool from Google that analyses the searches online for different terms. We have compared Mallorca and Majorca, on a year period. And here are the conclusions on this chart:. If you want to learn more about it, you can join us on one of our sightseeing trips while on holiday in Mallorca. Plus right now, Thomas Cook are offering cheap family holiday deals to Majorca over February half-term.

Top tips for holidays in Mallorca. For clarification, Majorca and Mallorca are two names for the same island. But which is the correct name for this mediterranean hotspot? There are some misconceptions about which is correct and where the terms derived from.

It's a common misconception that it's pronounced differently depending on the Spanish dialect being used, with it said to be different between Catalan or Spanish Castillian. This is actually false, and Majorca is, in fact, a British term for the island.

It's thought that the name of the island was changed as British people had issues with the pronunciation of the double L in the Spanish version, Mallorca.