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Old 01-09-2010, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Thank you. I'll now be able to sleep tonight.
Actually everyone I grew up with, including my family, called them the "Santa Anas". At some point as a kid I read it was supposed to be the Santanas.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Wow, you were impressionable. Good thing the Moonies or Jehovah Witnesses didn't get their hooks into you back then.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:48 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Actually everyone I grew up with, including my family, called them the "Santa Anas". At some point as a kid I read it was supposed to be the Santanas.
They were called the Santanas when I was growing up in Orange County beginning in 1951.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:51 PM
 
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Wow, you were impressionable. Good thing the Moonies or Jehovah Witnesses didn't get their hooks into you back then.
No, i just enjoyed annoying people with meaningless trivia.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:53 PM
 
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They were called the Santanas when I was growing up in Orange County beginning in 1951.
I hadn't yet arrived on the planet then.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Some people pronounce almond as "ammond". That bugs me.
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:01 PM
 
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Some people pronounce almond as "ammond". That bugs me.
Actually the old growers up in the Bay Area used to pronounce it "ammond".
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:02 PM
 
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I hadn't yet arrived on the planet then.
::::sigh:::: I was born in San Diego five years earlier!

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Actually the old growers up in the Bay Area used to pronounce it "ammond".
As did my father and he was from New York. Come to think of it, so was my mother and she pronounced it "aLmond."
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:03 PM
 
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::::sigh:::: I was born in San Diego five years earlier!
Upland 1958.
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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"Prune picker" seems to be all but dead.
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