[Ads-l] Xochitl

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fine by me.

JL

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:43 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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