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I would be willing to bet that ‘Guadalupe’ and ‘Mancheca’ get pronounced different ways in different parts of Latin America, let alone those places where Spanish is not the native language. Dead-on pronunciation of ‘foreign’ terms can often sound affected and elitist and often they get mangled into something the locals can pronounce. For instance, the furniture piece ‘etagere’ (a case with glass shelves) gets pronounced ‘et-er-jay’ among Americans who collect antiques and don’t know French. Yet here in Columbia, SC, the street names ‘Gervais’ and ‘Huger’ get pronounced more or less the French way, with silent consonants at the end. Go figure!

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Name : Augustine23577, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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