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Something which is always a source of confusion... ;)....
How do you pronounce; "Los Angeles"?...>>>

Los Angeles is pronounced El Ay.   ;)

[quote]Los Angeles is pronounced El Ay.

Not a city, but Arkansas (Ar-can-saw) always confused me.

From the Mexican, Los Angeles should be 'los an-jhel-es'... (The Angels), but Los An-gee-lees is my personal pronunciation.

Of course, most spellings have been skewed by the horrificness that is American-English. I just refer to it as 'American' as I don't want to put my language to its name 

I think a lot of confusion is due to the appearance of the Spanish/South Americans in California and the surrounding areas, and naming various locations with their own pronunciations, and then the later visitors Anglicising the names... ...!

Paul... ...!

Something which is always a source of confusion... ;)....
How do you pronounce; "Los Angeles"?...>>>

Click on the speaker icon --> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Los+Angeles

Not to mention the great city of N'awlins.  (see who figures it out!)

[quote]Something which is always a source of confusion... ;)....
How do you pronounce; "Los Angeles"?...>>>

[quote]Not to mention the great city of N'awlins.

Also pronounced NOLA.

Ta for the link, Doug...>>>

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/san+joaquin

I've been going through some of the pronunciation of "Spanish" names of familiar locations in California!

This one has always had me confused ....
San Joaquin (in the California Central Valley)..>>> San-Wo-Keen... ....!

...fascinating!

Paul... ....!

There's aso La Jolla, CA (La Hoya)

That one always got me when I lived in San Diego.

Up here in NH, SimV member "H" and I have the city of Berlin.

[quote][quote]Not to mention the great city of N'awlins.

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... Of course, most spellings have been skewed by the horrificness that is American-English. I just refer to it as 'American' as I don't want to put my language to its name