Date:    Mon, 18 May 1998 13:56:32 -0400
<br>From:    Larry Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: nativisms
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<br>At 1:55 PM +0000 5/18/98, Jim Rader wrote:
<br>>I recall hearing Chowchilla (with un-Hispanic spelling to begin
<br>>with) pronounced as something like ['chau chi], with two syllables,
<br>>when I was in the San Joaquin Valley in 1972.  I've never forgotten
<br>>it.
<br>>
<br>>Jim Rader
<br>>
<br>Actually, there's a wonderful example of just the reverse process in
<br>California, although I've never been able to authentic it.  There's a town
<br>you pass on I-5, in the middle of the nowhere-at-all part of the Central
<br>Valley, called Coalinga.  It's pronounced quasi-Spanish-style
<br>(co-a-LING-ga), although I suppose qua-LEENG-ga would be more "authentic",
<br>but the story (apocryphal or not) goes that it's named for coaling station
<br>A.
<br>
<br>Larry
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