Don't make me bring up my grandparents' town in Texas, Refugio. It is pronounced, by whitey anyway, "Re-fer-ee-oh." (Shout-out to msbelle!)
ugh. I'm at the part of the document (that is, the last 30 pages or so) that I didn't have a chance to thoroughly edit last night and I know I should just let it go but I can't help but read everything and make changes and, at this rate, I won't be finished until, oh, sometime next week? And I really am getting sleeepy. I just need to let it go and accept the changes.
HO! Kessin!
Scratch that. Taquitos and many, many cervezas.
Fortunately the bad pronounciating whiteys still are allowed taquitos in Refugio (well, taquitos is not really a thing there but, my god, the tamales. Plus all the other Mexican food I grew up on there.)
How does one pronounce Sepulveda?
I know the basic rules of Spanish. Why the Willamette rhymes with "Dang nabbit?" I will never know.
Growing up in Connecticut (which is, according to InfoPlease, "from an Indian word [Quinnehtukqut] meaning 'beside the long tidal river'"), I have the opposite problem. I get the Native American names for the most part, but I've felt like a total idiot trying to pronounce names in SoCal. ND laughed his ass off at my first attempt at "Cahuenga."
