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To: lefty-lie-spy

No one literate pronounces it Los AngeleEEs. I lived there for four years in the 80’s and no one pronounced it like that unless they were trying to be humorous in a low IQ way.

Unless, as others have pointed out, you’re Arlo Guthrie and you need it to rhyme with “ki’s” as in kilos.


26 posted on 01/29/2023 11:50:59 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2; Hebrews 11:6

I’m old and grew up there. Yes, Mayor Sam Yorty pronounced it AngeleEEs. He was born in the midwest (Iowa IIRC) but not sure how old he was when he moved to LA. He and LAPD Chief Parker cleaned up the corruption of the Mayor Poulson era. I mark the beginning of LA’s decline with Yorty’s loss of the mayoralty to Tom Bradley.


54 posted on 01/29/2023 2:27:41 PM PST by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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