antitoponymania

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Butters' rule of Spanish gender:
If it doesn't end in -a it is masculine. Excepts: el papa y la mano (both for
obvious Freudian reasons).

--Ron Butters (who learned his Spanish, such as it is, by speaking Franglais
to Mexicans and hoping for the best, which sometimes didn't work out, e.g.
when he allowed as how he was "embarasado--tengo los huevos en la cara"

 ****in reply to (salovesh at niu.edu):
 Deb as que decir "la

ciudad", no "el ciudad".  No le hace, porque estabas contestando   una

barbaridad de peores dimensiones:  Que fu  eso de decir "Miami = El

Ciudad del Vientro Grande"?