OT: old pronunciation of "Los Angeles"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/15/2011 03:28 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>He "ran on the road" as a
>Pullman porter and, in the course of working the Chief and the Super
>Chief of the Santa Fe R.R., he had been to L.A. on many an occasion.
>It's reasonable to assume that he learned the pronunciation with "hard
>G" _in situ_.

Wilson, don't you mean _in loco_?

:-)
Joel

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