Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:09:06 -0000, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
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>>relatives. Is there some other way to pronounce it?
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>Being completely ignorant of custom, I assumed that when spoken, it had a
>consonant cluster at the end, and was pronounced as spelled, with no "i".
>I'm really curious how it was pronounced in the Old Country (Poland?).
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My language arts teacher in second grade once told us of the time she
was in California and got blank stares when trying to get directions to
/la dZOl@/. Simply a language problem; how was she to know it was a
Spanish name and pronounced /la hOja/. "La Jolla" certainly *looks*
straightforward enough...

~mark