Remembering Ixtoc

[infrogmation]

Times-Picayune: 1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

A look back at what is now the 2nd worst oil disaster in the history of the Gulf.

(By the way, the name is Yucatec Maya, and is pronounced "Eesh-TOK", not "ICKS-tok". Sheesh, broadcast media, you've only had 30 years to learn that.)

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FWIW

[notr.livejournal.com]

Puerto Ricans I've known named Pérez have all said it "puh-REZ" in English themselves. I've never gotten one to explain why.

Maybe they just don't want to be associated with that Israeli jerkstove.

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[notr.livejournal.com]

"even though they said it the normal way in Spanish." Also some of them were Mexicans--which of course doesn't change your point any, but the question isn't how they pronounce their Spanish, it's why they say their name so differently in English.