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Originally Posted by craigster59
I had a friend from New Jersey who used to say "Sep-uhl-veedah" for Sepulveda. Don't even ask me how he pronounced Cahuenga or Hueneme.
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I always get a kick out of that when people visit.
When I was in PA about 20 years ago. We were looking for a place to eat. Now, this was about 8pm, nothing was open. Finally we found neon lights, drove toward it and discovered it was a Mexican restaurant. The young waitress brought us a plate of tortilla. She said this is tor-till-la and you dip it into this sauce and eat it with your hand while you wait for the food. This was not chips. It was just soft tortilla. My friend I was with happens to be the same kid who lived across the street from me growing up. A Mexican American kid. He kicked me when she said tor-till-la to keep me from laughing. I told him I ain't no Mexican, so why the heck should I laugh?
When I first taught school right out of college, a young lady from Sioux Falls came out to LA for a teaching job. Since we were both new, sometime we would have lunch together. She finally ask after the first week, why do these people name their kids Jesus. During roll call, she would call out Jesus and felt uncomfortable doing it. The students would not correct her because they were also new.