>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.

This works both ways. The other day I was at a Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru and tried to order a croissant. The incomprehension I received was so impenetrable I finally had to go inside and point at the thing I wanted, at which point the larval human employee gave me the sort of look they reserve for old people whom they consider very stupid and/or deliberately being a problem and said with exaggerated understanding, "OH! You want a cruSANT," rhyming with "plant".

As for Spanish place names, when I worked at Leading Edge I would routinely startle callers from the Southwest by pronouncing the names of their streets and towns more or less right when reading them back out of the registered-warranties database. Three years of high school Spanish, you know. Also, "Tujunga Canyon" is just fun to say. TuHUNNNNgaaahhh. Boca RRRRRRATón. RRRRRRRANcho CucaMONgaaaaaaaa.

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