--- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:00:02AM -0700, Howard Brazee wrote: > > My wife, from St. Louis, refers to Warshington and Warsh. > > > > It's interesting that the West, where they are more a part of the > native > > culture, "rodeo" is pronounced as if it were an English word, but the > East > > is more likely to pronounce it as a Spanish word. > > The obvious counter examples to that include jalapeno and saguaro. > Although > my favorite requires the telling of a true story that I got second hand > from the person who experienced it first hand. > > This person worked for the NIH (National Institute of Health) in > Washington, > D.C. Now, in DC a lot of things tend to be political, and political > correctness is rampant. There was one particular lady who was > particularly > militant about that, and one day she decided to browse her "Network > Neighborhood" for reasons lost to obscurity. There she notices a > computer > that is named Jesus Saves. Now, working at a government agency in DC > this offends her, so she goes to my friend to track down who owns this. > He laughs and tells her he has other work to do, he might get to it > eventually. > This is not good enough for her, so she goes to his boss and causes a > ruckus. > Naturally, his boss comes and asks him to track it down. So he does > (this > requires him to determine the MAC address, track which switch it's > connected to so that they can trace the wiring to find the office). > They > do this and go to the office to talk to the person. The office of Jesus > Saves (Hay-zoos Sav-ez). I like it, but I don't believe it. Google has no relevant hits for "Pablo Saves", "Roberto Saves", "Pancho Saves", or "Paco Saves". (There are too many false positives to check "Juan Saves" [an incident from Byron] or "Pedro Saves" [Christmas].) So I doubt very much that "Saves" is a Spanish surname. By the way, since our resident native speaker of Spanish hasn't said anything, "Hay-soos Sav-es" would be closer. Speaking of Jose, here in New Mexico it can be hard to tell whether someone's last name is "Marquez" or "Marcus". Jerry Friedman is feeling picky. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail