In article >, Richard Kaszeta
> wrote:
> (Mark Shaw) writes:
> > >Chee-poat-lay.
> >
> > Several people have claimed this, and it's just not correct. The
> > final syllable rhymes with "sled," not "day" -- or at least that's
> > as close as you can come in English.
>
> My two Oaxacan colleagues beg to differ and claim chee-poat-lay and
> that the Spaniards screwed up everyone's pronounciation... but then
> again my linguistics friend insists we're all wrong and that the
> "tle" is pronounced as a lateral affricate, like the 'll' in Welsh...
What "ll" in Welsh? I'm sticking with Mark and the "sled"
pronuniciation and suggest that when spoken in normal conversation, the
pronunciation might shift a bit.
--
-Barb
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