Re: USAGE: Cool idioms (was Re: Bibliography)

FFlores wrote:

> Tom Wier <artabanos@...> wrote:
> >
> > Which reminds me, does anyone have city names or other proper
> > names that they spell unphonetically, because of some conhistorical
> > or concultural tradition? I know there are quite a few British cities
> > whose names would stump most any American (Leicester, e.g., IIRC,
> > is /lEst@/)...
>
> The only one I can think of here is Ushuaia /u'swaia/ (it's
> the southernmost city on Earth). I don't have a clue why it's
> spelled like that, totally un-Spanish, which inevitably causes
> every foreign person to pronounce /u'Swaia/ or /uSwa'i.a/.
> It doesn't seem English either. In Argentina there are a lot
> of English names in towns especially in Buenos Aires, like
> Hurlingham, Wheelwright, Armstrong, etc. and Welsh names in
> the south (Madryn and I think Trelew). But Ushuaia is very
> strange.
Deshacer, deshielo, deshidratado, deshonor, trashumante...
The <h> is just the Spanish mute <h> as in this compunds, I guess.

>
>
> --Pablo Flores
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