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As the Earth Turns.
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Hasn't that always been the accepted gringo pronunciation? In Spanish, "Los" should have a long "O" sound, but I grew up there decades ago, and it was always pronounced the same as "Las Vegas." In fact, people of my father's generation (fought in WW2) often pronounced Angeles with a hard G - like the English word "angle"...sounded like "Las Angle-us."
Americans have always murdered Spanish. The one that used to bug me the most when I lived there was "Lah Pewenny" (La Puente) and "San Peedro"....though "San Paydro" is just as wrong.
Up here in the Bay Area, the Silicon Valley is headquartered in "Sanazay" (San Jose), and there is the suburb of "Sallyandro" (San Leandro). People up here refer to the '89 Earthquake as the "Loma Pre-ayta" earthquake (Loma Prieta). Drives me nuts, and I'm not Latino, and my Spanish sucks.
Here in Connecticut, it's "Lawss Anjul-us" and "Lahss Vay-gus." In Boston and environs, the final vowel sound become more of a short i: Lawss Anjul-iss, Lahss Vay-giss. Jerry Remy, who does TV for the Red Sox, calls the Detroit baseball team the "Ty-gizz."
That's sort of like wondering why "Miami" in Florida ends with an "ee" sound and in Oklahoma it is "My-aahm-uh" instead.
In truth, its the following:
"Law of Hobson-Jobson" The rule that words or phrases borrowed between languages will be modified in their pronunciation as necessary to conform to the set of sounds used by the borrowing language.
And just for convenience. I know people from Louisville, KY. They pronounce it "Louvull."
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Thank goodness you didn't use Norfolk!
And I know folks from Nor'lins.
That's a city in Loozeeana, of course.
And long ago before the desert city was big and well known, I was accused of living in Fow-enn-iks.
Or Fuquay, North Carolina (Now Fuquay-Varnia).
It is interesting to hear news reporters dealing with non-intuitive pronunciations. The most common I can think of is Spokane, WA. It ain't "Spoh-cain".
Then there is the pronunciation of anything in New England ending in "cester" or "chester".
We used to have pronunciation guides in the newsroom. Now, anyone who wants can get an audio pronunciation online... but few seem to care.
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I've heard it pronounced several different ways but not that way.
We've got a long time anchor here in the Valley that still cannot pronounce "Arizona" the proper way.
Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts, are pronounced the same way they are in the English cities they were named after. The "ce" is silent. (And in Leicester, the "ei" is a short "e," but that's another matter.) All the -chester places (Manchester, Dorchester, Winchester, etc) are also pronounced the way the English pronounce them. Conversely, the -ham suffix is pronounced the English way as "um" in Hingham and Dedham, "ham" in Framingham, and "am" in Waltham (wall-tham, not wall-thum or walt-ham). Stoughton is "stoe-ton" and Haverhill is "hay-ver-'ll" -- not "stuff-ton" or "hav-er-hill," as I've heard outsiders pronounce them on Boston TV over the years.
I remember a charity raffle in one market I was in where they held a drawing for a "Bweek" automobile.
Was that the same student who said "Toll (sounds like "Troll")-uh-sun" for that place near Buckeye?
hmmmm...think that was some guy who used to hang in Presskit. I believe he now lives in Waxahachie, Tx
That would be different from the Brazilian Waxahachie.
...and even more different than a Brazilian Wax. YIKES!
Oh well, the Nurse and I will just have to be content with knowing Fort Huachuca is but a three hour trip away in the Gremlin.
Even more interesting is that in neighboring New York, Greenwich Village, a section of Manhattan, is pronounced "GREN-ich," while Greenwich, a small town in the Albany area, is pronounced "GREEN-wich."
How do you know that? The Gremlin has never made it all the way to Who-watch-e-ka.
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