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.)

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't know. I don't speak Yucatec Maya.

[jdquintette.livejournal.com]

No problem. You're not making a high six figures as a "broadcast journalist," so nobody expects you to take 30 seconds out of your day to learn how to pronounce stuff properly on-air.:-P

Oh, and Froggy, it's only American media that does this. Check out the BBC. They know how to pronounce "Kabul" too.

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.