[Ads-l] Xochitl

[Barretts Mail]

Sure, but please correct “XO cheel” to “SO cheel” first :)

> On 14 Jun 2019, at 09:43, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> May I forward this to the American Name Society list?
> 
> Mark Mandel
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 12:26 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> https://salsaxochitl.com/xo-proud/ <https://salsaxochitl.com/xo-proud/>
>> The narrator pronounces the name “SO chee uhl”.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-l2ur00Fnk <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-l2ur00Fnk>
>> Starts out with a parody on pronouncing “Xochitl”. The interviewer is
>> given "SO chil” by a random stranger, but then Xochitl Torres Small says
>> that “XO cheel” is the easier way to pronounce her name.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMJjeiwsJY <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMJjeiwsJY>
>> Xochitl Torres Small pronounces her first name as “SOH cheel”, but she
>> says her middle name in Spanish.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19BJXCRIZM <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19BJXCRIZM>
>> ItsARuizThing pronounces her name as “SO cheel” and specifically states
>> that the “t” is silent. It does not sound like she is pronouncing her name
>> in an Anglicized way.
>> 
>> While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonology <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonology> shows that classical
>> Nahuatl has the phoneme tɬ, it also states: "In some dialects, the /t͡ɬ/
>> phoneme, so common in Classical Nahuatl, has changed into either /t/, as in
>> Isthmus Nahuatl, Mexicanero and Pipil, or into /l/, as in Nahuatl of
>> Pómaro, Michoacán."
>> 
>> https://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/4347008 <
>> https://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/4347008>
>> Xochitl Ratliff writes: "It is pronounced So-Chee OR So-chill in spanish,
>> In aztec it is pronounced Zoe-Chee-Tul. The name means flower in Aztec.”
>> 
>> 
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>> 
>>> On 14 Jun 2019, at 06:55, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Xochitl Hinojosa (b.ca1985), Director of Communications, Democratic
>>> National Committee.

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