Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

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> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
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> >On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:09:06 -0000, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
> >wrote:
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> >
> >
> >>relatives. Is there some other way to pronounce it?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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?).
> >
> >
> 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...

And Van Nuys is indisputably Van Eyes.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...