[Ads-l] Misnderstanding "Don Quijote"

[W Brewer]

<Don Quixote> [don KWICK-sit], was standard (UK?) variant, IIRC. Cf.
<quixotic> [kwick-SAH-tick]. (Never heard [*key-HOE-tick, *key-HAH-tick])

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