Fatboy
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So how do YOU say it?
First of all let me say I know about 25 words of spanish and I can only pronounce about a 1/4 of them correctly so I am not even a novice in speaking
a foreign language...
SO say it out loud
TIJUANA
Did you say
Tee-JUANA
or
Tee-A-JUANA
I clearly don't how to spell something out the way it is pronounced either 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Fatboy
First of all let me say I know about 25 words of spanish and I can only pronounce about a 1/4 of them correctly so I am not even a novice in speaking
a foreign language...
SO say it out loud
TIJUANA
Did you say
Tee-JUANA
or
Tee-A-JUANA
I clearly don't how to spell something out the way it is pronounced either
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This site may help you.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry?id=t02...
What control freaks there are here. Don\'t believe that post you just read!
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Welcome Fatboy. I follow the "when in Rome" philosophy....
If I'm in Prescott, Arizona, I pronounce it like "biscuit"... and in Tijuana, it's Ti-juana ("Tee cWHAnna" - or something along those lines), not
Tia-juana... but there is a bar called "Tia-Juana Tilly's"...
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Doug is correct tee whana.
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It's "Tee Jay"...
There are several "authorities" who claim that old maps show it spelled "Tia Juana", but I don't recall where those maps were published and would not
rely on that as a final authority. If there is an historical society in TJ, that would be the authority.
Anyway, it's Tijuana now, 3 syllables, not 4.
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teeh w?'n?
tee-HWAH-nah
tihwaa'nah
All of these were gotten from Ask.com
Typical Gringo Pronunciation: "Tee-uh-wanna"
[Edited on 6-30-2005 by bajajudy]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
It's "Tee Jay"...
There are several "authorities" who claim that old maps show it spelled "Tia Juana", but I don't recall where those maps were published and would not
rely on that as a final authority. If there is an historical society in TJ, that would be the authority.
Anyway, it's Tijuana now, 3 syllables, not 4. |
Check out these links:
http://baja-web.com/tijuana/tia-jua/indexdcdd.html
http://baja-web.com/tijuana/tia-jua/tijuana-history2.html
Not sure of the accuracy either, but there it is ...
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Gracias, Roberto
Muy interesante
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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks
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Istan and other Bull
Of course, in those two examples the property changed hands, unlike TJ.
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...And it is They Might Be Giants brand new album for 1990...
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