Roll the "r" in Maria. Eugenia is "Eh-U-hen-yah". Spoken by someone fluent in Spanish the names flow together and sound like one name, some of the vowels sounds get left out and it sounds like "Mah-ree-u-hen-yah". This is why we call her Mari. It is "short" for her full first and middle names run together. At the orphanage, they either called her Maria Eugenia or Mari, but never Maria. She wouldn't even answer to Maria for a long time and still definately prefers Mari.
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Roll the "r" in Maria. Eugenia is "Eh-U-hen-yah". Spoken by someone fluent in Spanish the names flow together and sound like one name, some of the vowels sounds get left out and it sounds like "Mah-ree-u-hen-yah". This is why we call her Mari. It is "short" for her full first and middle names run together. At the orphanage, they either called her Maria Eugenia or Mari, but never Maria. She wouldn't even answer to Maria for a long time and still definately prefers Mari.