Pronouncing local place names! (Dallas, San Antonio: population, top, drive)

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by ChrisSA_wxatUIW

this is an amusing thread!
"Blank-O" really?? it sounds like a facial expression you get when you don't know how to pronounce something! lol the "a" has more of an "ah" sound to it (almost like you would say the "o" in "blonde"). Blanco. And I don't think that the tone of your skin should determine how you say it either. My uncle who lives in town is very much "light skinned" and he still pronounces it the right way.

Please note that I made no distinction with regard to skin color. I indicated that Spanish-speakers (they come in all colors) who anglecize Spanish names irritate me.

[Retired-&-going-back-2-CA]

Originally Posted by SanAntoQT

What chaps my a$$ even more is a SPANISH-speaker who anglecizes Spanish names. Sin verguenzas!

Yeah right, I think you need to dream on! You get that more in SA. Just go thru this whole thread. Blank-O

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

i don't think it was you, it might have been someone else. It just bothers me
i mean, i remember one time the guy on the weather channel called our western neighboring county "Med-in-uh" (instead of "Med-eee-nah).
And then once when I was 4 I remember there was this tortilla comercial with this cowboy and he couldn't say tortilla right to say his life (he kept saying the ll's as you would in english and not the "y" sound) and it made me so frustrated because this grown-up couldn't say it right but i could....


....it just makes me want to yell and throw my shoe..........

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

Originally Posted by Retired-&-going-back-2-CA

Yeah right, I think you need to dream on! You get that more in SA. Just go thru this whole thread. Blank-O

^haha!! that's definately a Blank-O face!!!

i love it! this face shall hence forth be dubbed the "Blank-O Expression"

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by Retired-&-going-back-2-CA

Yeah right, I think you need to dream on! You get that more in SA. Just go thru this whole thread. Blank-O

Precisely why I said in San Diego, which is much closer to the border and has a higher influx of Spanish-speakers...yadda, yadda, yadda...should be better at the Spanish names...but, whatevah!

Of course, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a NATIVE San Antonian who will resort to San PEEdro! *lol*

[Retired-&-going-back-2-CA]

Originally Posted by SanAntoQT

Of course, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a NATIVE San Antonian who will resort to San PEEdro! *lol*

You know what's funny is that is exactly how it is pronounced over here in SA!

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

i pronounce it like that too....

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by ChrisSA_wxatUIW

i pronounce it like that too....

Ok...then consider yourself educated...you're mispronouncing it.

[ChrisSA_wxatUIW]

what, "peh-dro" instead of "pay-dro"?? no, I'm pretty sure that's the right pronouciation

[SanAntoQT]

Originally Posted by ChrisSA_wxatUIW

what, "peh-dro" instead of "pay-dro"?? no, I'm pretty sure that's the right pronouciation

No...I was saying that I've heard people say "Pee (long e)dro" and you said you pronounced it that way. The correct pronunciation would be with a short "e"...as you have in your first pronunciation.