old pronunciation of "Los Angeles"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> I've heard the /g/ pronunciation occasionally in old movies. Â I don't
> recall which, nor therefore how old, but I'd guess 1930s to 1940s.
>

I don't recall it from movies of those days, but that's probably
coincidental. But I do recall that, when I was in grade school -
1942-1950, i. e. the '40's!;-) - Irving, a family friend. likewise
from Marshall, used the [g] pronunciation. 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_.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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