> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Simmons [mailto:scs at di.org] > > Texas: am-uh-RILL-o (that an English LL) > Mexico: ah-mah-REE-yo (that's an Enlish y, ie, a Spanish j) > I believe you mean (at least based on the way I learned it so many years ago) that it's a Spanish ll (which is pronounced like an English y). Of course, I haven't spoken or read Spanish in so long I may have gotten confused.