Re: [CH] Votes for any pepper
Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:50:17 -0800
Alex Silbajoris wrote:
>> From: Craig Dremann <craig@ecoseeds.com>
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>> The Anglos always drop all the accents off the Spanish words---when did
>> you ever see the city in California spelled San José with an accent over
>> the e?
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> It really isn't needed since Anglos already stress the last syllable,
> while Hispanics need it to indicate the pronunciation is not HOS-ay.
> A better example might be the absent mark in "resume"...
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> As for the tilde in habanero, maybe some suppliers like to embellish
> the name with exotic punctuation. Whether that's the cse or not, it's
> just a very common way to spell it here, regardless of the fact that
> Cubans don't spell or pronounce it that way.
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> It amused me, a few years ago, to visit Little Havana in Miami (Calle
> Ocho, 8th Street) and find not a habanero pepper in sight.
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> - A
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I have a friend from Chile, whose 95 year old father recently died, and
she eats far fewer chiles than we do. She and her husband, whom I have
known for 20 years, rarely eat chiles(except when they visit us):-)
However, they live in Montreal, so we only see them once in awhile Doug
in BC