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Y'all should talk about "proper" pernunciation with y'all's Don Quick-soat.
Speaking of which, why do people say "Kee-hoe-tay" but "Kwix-otic"? At least saying "Quick-soat" has the virtue of consistency.
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saying QUICK-soat, JFTR, is the Queen's own proffered pronunciation, as recorded by the OED. I suppose it's by "back-formulation" from quixotic. :)
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We say Don Quick-soat in English??? Good lord, if anybody had ever said that to me, I have to admit that I wouldn't have had a clue who he was talking about.
In French Québec, we prounounce it "qui-shot" with qui pronounced as in quiche.
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why do people say "Kee-hoe-tay" but "Kwix-otic"?
Quixote is a Spanish name, so we pronounce it in Spanish (or as close to Spanish as our poor little gringa tongues can extend themselves). Quixotic is an English word derived from that name so we pronounce it English like.
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I don't have Fowler's MEU with me, but I'm pretty sure that he says that originally the Don's name was pronounced Quick-soat in English, hence quicksotic, but then people decided to show off how much Spanish they knew and hypercorrecting it to keehotay till that became the usual pronunciation.
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> hypercorrecting it to keehotay
well, now I feel much better about how I used to pronounce Yosemite Sam... oh, and the Adirondacks...
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Yo-semm-itty A-deer-on-dacks
Na??
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ok, fine... I'll put myself out there...
I used to say: YOZE-might and ad-I-ern-dax...
sad, ain't it?
deeba-deeba-deeba, that's all folks...
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No, no (snicker) perfectly understandable, (snicker, snicker) happens to the best of us. Seriously though, unless you've ever heard a word spoken, the pronunciation isn't always evident...for examply, I still don't know how to pronounce "awry." Is it AH-REE or A-RYE?
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