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Living in Los Angeles as a white person, I refuse to pronounce street and city names that are Spanish the English-speaking way. Knowing Spanish since I was a kid from school and using it on a daily basis, my brain simply doesn’t butcher the pronunciation by default.
It’s caused confusion though for sure. I used to live near a street called La Tijera, but Americans pronounced it almost like Spanish “la tierra” which is a completely different word, and I couldn’t figure out where this street was that everyone was talking about.
So, do you call it "Loss Anjeless" or "Lōs On-hay-lays?"
Low' En'hee-lews
Loss An-hell-ess.
There was a street in the town I grew up in that everyone called "Awkwee-estahh" . It was Aqui Esta, which is a cute street name, but if you pronounced it correctly no one knew what you were talking about lol
That is a hilarious street name, omg
Does that translate to It’s Here Street??
Yeah, something like “it’s here” or “here it is.” With the proper accents the phrase is “aquí está.”
Houston, Texas has a street called Kuykendahl (or something similar). People kept mentioning this 'kirkendall' street and I could never find it.
But that's one where they're leaning much closer to the Dutch pronunciation
Maybe there's some vestige there but I asked upwards of 20 people and no one could explain it. Texas did historically have german-speaking communities and even cities, but I wasn't aware of any Dutch nor had I heard anyone mention it. It's interesting?
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including linguistic confusion