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[kosherpickle]

oaxaca.
i'm easy to please.

[hlamb]

[jillford64]

My favorite is Zacatecas. I like it because it is fast - like a double or triple tongued articulation in music.

[eclectic]

I like Xochimilco the best.

[Gregor]

Three for different reasons:
1. Oaxaca, because when I first moved here the pronunciation made NO SENSE to the spelling. I know, there are a lot of those, but Oaxaca just looks cool spelled like that. It doesn't look impossible to pronounce to the uninitiated, but then they try and it's hilarious.

2. Zihuatanejo, because it's VERY satisfying to say and sounds impossibly exotic, and

3. Xoxocotlan, shortened to Xoxo, pronounced Ho-ho, and a favorite around here for Christmas.

[melisssssa]

Wow! Michoac�n has some great representation in this area. I'll add one more, Tangancicuaro. Home to the beautiful and serene Lago Camecuaro.

I actually had a conversation about this very topic on the flight with a professor from Queretaro. There's Chimalcoyotl in DF, and Nezahuilpilli, Xotepingo, Xoco, and Xochimilco of course. We went on to discuss names!, as he had read many rosters over the years.
For women, Xochitl, Matzil.
For men, jaw dropping/tongue twisting Hutzilopotztli, Netzahualcoyotl!

And Quanaxhuato? Say it...that's what it reads on bus transfers in Guanajuato!

[MELEE]

[MELEE]

I dug up this old thread because I think I have a new favorite. I asked all of my new students to tell me about their hometown. And one if from...


...Santa Rosa Matagallinas (chicken killer for the Spanish impaired), Oaxaca.

[TheLongWayHome]

Gogorron!

[Gary Denness]

DF.

But then, I am a little lazy....

[Guy Courchesne]

[GueroPaz]

The Nauhatl aren't the only ones with strange names. I worked in Chenalho, Chiapas, where the Tzotzil place names included Xoy�p, Chu'cht�c, Mitziton, Mucteal, Yabteclum. I heard about the attacks on the WTC in Yaghemel. X'oyep starts with a shhh sound, and both Y names start with an English y consonant sound, and some of the consonants are guttural.

Then there's the reality of Subcomandante Marcos' real hideout in the Lacond�n jungle: La Realidad.

[Phil_K]

People are always telling me about the mythical Parangaricutirim�cuaro (sp?) - which supposedly doesn't exist - I tell them we have a much better one in the UK, precisely in Wales.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

...and yes, it has a website:

http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/

...and yes, I can say it!

[Phil_K]

I guess Gueropaz will tell me the offical name of Bangkok is:

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphop
nopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit.

[GueroPaz]