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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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