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| From the Colorado Springs Gazette |
• Eleven-year-old boy gains some understanding of the larger world, dresses himself, and rides a bicycle for a mile. His actions gain wide praise in these nanny-state days.
• Some people make fun of mounted deer heads in the living room. Yet they can be useful!
• How to pronounce "Casa Grande," Arizona.
• How to pronounce street names in Colorado Springs. Having also lived in Portland, Oregon, I have to stop and think about "Willamette Street" before I say it.
• Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife seeks photos taken at state parks for a "Best of 2011" contest.
• Pressured by lawsuits, the U.S. Forest Service draws up new rules about dropping fire retardant into waterways.
2 comments:
Heck, back when I worked at Climax and lived in Leadville, even the local Mexicans down the valley would say "it's a bwayna veesta in Byoona Vista".
NM pronunciations:
Thoreau--"Threw"
Madrid: "MAD- rid"
Datil: "Dattle"
Truth or Consequences: "T er C"
PJ O'Rourke once posited a NM town called Lost My Hat. We have Sandia (Watermelon), Quemado (Burnt) and Raton (Mouse) and I once invented a fictional one called "Raton Quemado"- why not? Though with the exception of PJ's you at least use normal Spanish pronunciation.
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