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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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What is this, The Walking Dead? #TheMist #Svengoolie #YesIKnow
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Someone on FB posted that the correct way to pronounce Colorado (the state) was with a long "ah" sound (rhymes with the second word in "potato, potato").
I said they were wrong.
Wife of a friend of mine laid in and told me *I* was wrong because "colorado" is a Spanish word, so it should be pronounced in proper Spanish.
By the time I thought of asking her for the "correct" pronunciation of Los Angeles, the Alamo, San Francisco, etc., she was mad, so I didn't.
Complication: She's Mexican American, from Texas. I did mention Texas as an example before I shut my mouth, and she said the "Tejas" pronunciation was because it's not a Spanish-derived word, but from indigenous people living in the region.
Sigh. Sometimes you just walk away.
#linguistics #culture #pronunciation #english #american #YesIKnow #ButStill