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And old Burbank (CA) hands say the street name Buena Vista as Boo-nah Vista..


479 posted on 04/22/2009 10:44:29 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 92 of our national holiday from reality.)
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And old Burbank (CA) hands say the street name Buena Vista as Boo-nah Vista..

Now that's surprising, having a history of Spanish settlement and an historically large Hispanic population. Maybe it's like the British deliberately pronouncing claret as "CLAIR-ett," to spite the French, so there is precedent.

We hadn't encountered all that many native Spanish speakers until a few decades ago, so we have a little more excuse here, lol.

548 posted on 04/22/2009 1:04:13 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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