Dons Quixote and Juan (was: Chile)

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> I was instructed by my high school English
> teacher around 1950 that the proper pronunciation
> was kwiks-oat.

I, too, was in high school in 1950, but I knew that that pronunciation
was the "proper" one even before that. I don't recall when I first
heard "Key-HOE-tay," since I was long convinced that it had to be some
kind of mistake. It sounded so ridiculous that I tried to make it go
away by ignoring it.

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-Wilson
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