Chile

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Back in my day (1950s), "Chile" was pronounced like "Chilly."
>
> "Chilean" was pronounced as "chillyin."

As Ike Turner once noted,

"Those were the good old days!"

(I'd have expected, "_Them was_ the good old days." But, since "Those
were ..." was already a well-worn cliche, perhaps he just decided to
go with standard, as a change of pace.)

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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