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Re: Q about /c/

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 3:40
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Thank you. I keep reading about the "River Plate" dialect having all > sorts of odd features but I had no idea where it was.
"River Plate" is simply the anglification of the Spanish (and not a very good one at that) >Based on
> the lyrics to "What's New, Buenos Aires?" in "Evita", I thought it was a
district of that city. .[snip Rio de la P.] Flórida . . .
> Corriente Nueve de Julio . . . All I want to know . . . "). >
Those are simply well-known street names. C.Florida is stressed on the _ri_; and it should be _Corrientes_ (who slipped up, A.L.Webber or Patti Lupone??); they boast that Nueve de Julio is the widest street in the world. It may well be. Meta Comment: If people didn't keep bringing up interesting topics, it would be much easier to stay under the 99-limit :-)))) Stop me before I post more!!

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