Everyone used to pronounce it "Chilly," now it's "Chee-leh."
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Fri Mar-12-10 10:42 AM
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Everyone used to pronounce it "Chilly," now it's "Chee-leh." |
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Which is of course more correct.
I think this says something about the rising importance of Latin American countries in the collective American mind.
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Fri Mar-12-10 09:49 PM
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1. it helps that it's been in the news lately... |
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I didn't know how to pronounce "Moscow" (I said "MOSS-COW") until my late 20s...I spied my dad reading a book called "There's No Cow In Moscow"
the correct English way is of course like "MUSS-KU"
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Sat Mar-13-10 12:36 AM
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2. in Spanish, London is Londres Deutschland is Alemania |
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I see no particular reason why we in the US should attempt to say it the way the native people do.
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