chill-LAY/chee-Lay

[David A. Daniel]

>are making a false analogy from
>the adjective/noun _Chilean_, which, of course, does have stress on the
>middle syllable;

Am wondering why Chilean would "of course" have the stress in the middle. I
have always said Chilly for the country and CHILLY-un for the adjective. As
I recall just about everyone else in the USA did too until the 1980's when
there was a mass movement to over-pronounce Spanish words. This was parodied
in 1990 by SNL in a hilarious skit with Jimmy Smits about the whole
hyper-Spanish thing. Whenever I hear Chil-LAY-un now it just kind of makes
me shake my head and chuckle.
DAD

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