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Originally Posted by greymule
What is odd about the term Sierra Nevada Mountains?
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Okay, I'll bite, with apologizes that we are hijacking the thread. Could it be...
Sierra is "mountain range" in Italian and nevada is "snowy" in Spanish, so I guess we have Snowy Mountain Range Mountains.
Building on that, many will 'pluralize' it in the American way, calling them the Sierra Nevadas, which gives us Mountain Range Snowies.