Roasteria

[sagehen]

> But confusion might be incurred.  Thus "Carpeteria", with penultimate
> stress on /i/, is a suburb of Santa Barbara.  But as you can see and
> hear at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCsprx1ZEK0, the
> ubiqitous homographic carpet store chain pronounced it with
> antepenultimate stress, "cafeteria" style.
>
> LH
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Um, I think it's Carpenteria or Carpinteria CA.  I like the analogy to
"cafeteria" as a guide to the pronunciation. It keeps the coffee connection
alive & buries the "diarrhea" & other unpleasant echoes.
AM

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