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On the same page as that Russell cartoon I posted about today, I noticed this on the paper's masthead -- very, very picky about how you pronounce Los Angeles!
[EDIT] Apparently, they started doing this as far back as August of 1908. An ex-collegue of mine from Choate posted a link in FB about the Times, decades later, recapitulating the argument.
[EDIT] Apparently, they started doing this as far back as August of 1908. An ex-collegue of mine from Choate posted a link in FB about the Times, decades later, recapitulating the argument.
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Interestingly enough, old time radio shows would use the pronunciation "Loce Ang el eez" (with a hard G) - except for Dragnet, which used the modern "Loce Angh el ess" from the beginning. I remember a color TV commercial from the 60s with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in costumes as telephones (with leotards!) for Bell System long distance, talking about how cheap a long distance call from NYC to LA was, using the first pronunciation. (A Google search for it only turns up a reference in the Washington Post.)
The TImes's pronunciation is much closer to the proper Spanish than either of the two in common use.
The TImes's pronunciation is much closer to the proper Spanish than either of the two in common use.
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