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Message ID: 19
#19, RE: For Love of the Grammer Nazi
Posted by MuninsFire on Mar-20-14 at 04:41 PM
In response to message #15
For a good time, take your choice of configurable satnav and plot out a route through the greater LA area, and set language choice to British.

Sepulveda Blvd. is pronounce "Seh PULL veh dah", but the British satnav is convinced it's more "S'pul VAY da"

Other streets of Spanish derivation receive similar treatment.

And, since you reminded me--

I lived in Maine for a while, and worked both in the drive-through at McD---- and as a 411 operator.

Given that the breakfast fajitas were fairly popular, I soon grew used to the inevitable New England butchering ("Can I have some fah-JEE-tahs?") of that product.

However, listening to Easterners butcher the names of the following towns burned memories into my brain that, frankly, I could do without:

La Jolla, CA. It's "La Hoya" not...the other thing.

La Cañada Flintridge is "La Can Ya Dah / Flintridge" not the country immediately to the north of Maine.

...actually, anything with the ñ (n-tilde if it doesn't show up) got horribly butchered, now that I think of it....