[Ads-l] Xochitl

[Mark Mandel]

May I forward this to the American Name Society list?

Mark Mandel

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 12:26 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://salsaxochitl.com/xo-proud/ <https://salsaxochitl.com/xo-proud/>
> The narrator pronounces the name “SO chee uhl”.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-l2ur00Fnk <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-l2ur00Fnk>
> Starts out with a parody on pronouncing “Xochitl”. The interviewer is
> given "SO chil” by a random stranger, but then Xochitl Torres Small says
> that “XO cheel” is the easier way to pronounce her name.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMJjeiwsJY <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMJjeiwsJY>
> Xochitl Torres Small pronounces her first name as “SOH cheel”, but she
> says her middle name in Spanish.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19BJXCRIZM <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19BJXCRIZM>
> ItsARuizThing pronounces her name as “SO cheel” and specifically states
> that the “t” is silent. It does not sound like she is pronouncing her name
> in an Anglicized way.
>
> While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonology <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonology> shows that classical
> Nahuatl has the phoneme tɬ, it also states: "In some dialects, the /t͡ɬ/
> phoneme, so common in Classical Nahuatl, has changed into either /t/, as in
> Isthmus Nahuatl, Mexicanero and Pipil, or into /l/, as in Nahuatl of
> Pómaro, Michoacán."
>
> https://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/4347008 <
> https://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/4347008>
> Xochitl Ratliff writes: "It is pronounced So-Chee OR So-chill in spanish,
> In aztec it is pronounced Zoe-Chee-Tul. The name means flower in Aztec.”
>
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
> > On 14 Jun 2019, at 06:55, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Xochitl Hinojosa (b.ca1985), Director of Communications, Democratic
> > National Committee.
>
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