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when I learned that La Jolla and La Hoya were the same city. The image is of a jolly harlequin. We'll assume he's jolly. :)

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 3, 2021 [SPOILER]

I thought Jolla sounded like challah, but with a J.

I also had this epiphany some months ago, but I look things up all the time, when I don't know. If I think of another funny one, I'll post it. :)

Funny!

Never heard of La Hoya, but my grandparents lived in La Jolla, so I learned the proper pronunciation long before I could even spell!

LOVE the image!!!

I have no idea where that is but I love the image!

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It's a city in California, spelled La Jolla, which is pronounced "la hoya", since it's Spanish :)

I'd seen the name in print, and heard it spoken, but one day I was watching the news when I both saw AND heard the name!

I did that with Potomac. I had heard people talk about "putt TOE mick," but in my head I was pronouncing Potomac as "POT oh mack" -- so I was very surprised when I figured out that they are the same place.

Then there's Detroit, with road names like "Gratiot" that I would have thought would be pronounced by French pronunciation rules, so it would be "Gra shee oh." But, no, Detroiters pronounce it "Grash it."

Don't get me started on the way New Orleans pronounces the Muses. Terpsichore Street: terp SIH core ee? Nope, it's TERP sih core.

Oh my goodness!

...and just when you think there's only one way to pronounce Madrid...you discover MAD rid, Iowa!

there's a QUEE beck, Tennessee (spelled Quebeck)

Wow!

There's also HOW-ston Street (spelled Houston) in NYC.

Yep. I learned that when I interned in NYC. One of my painters (Diana Kurz) lived just off Houston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Kurz

On another tangent about place names: One time when my youngest kid, Corbin, was still in daycare, I was pushing him in a stroller into his daycare center when I passed a huge carton of paper towels that said "Nibroc" on it. I thought, "That looks like it's a word spelled backward." So I reversed it and was very surprised!

Later I looked it up and found out that the paper towels are made in a town called Corbin, Kentucky that has an annual Nibroc festival. When Corbin was named, we had no idea!

Alabama has a couple of those. Palmerdale and Remlap

I like that!
What was your internship?

I helped out three different painters, Diana Kurz, Jane Dickson, and Suzanne McClelland. I helped them prepare canvases, get film developed (Wolf Camera is run by Hasidic Jews, so you won't get your film processed over the weekend), bring artwork to galleries, etc. The upshot was that a formed a love/hate relationship with NYC, and I learned that I am not cut out for the life of studio painting.

I had wanted to intern for Philip Pearlstein, because I was primarily a portrait artist, but another intern had already snatched him up (or vice versa).

https://jewishartsalon.org/diana-kurz/
https://janedickson.com/artwork
http://www.artnet.com/artists/suzanne-mcclelland/
https://philippearlstein.com/

Super cool! Wow!

Super interesting Kristen. A lot of artists work/live in SOHO, south of Houston.

There's a town in Arizona named Miami but they insist you pronounce it My-AM-uh. As with many states there are names derived from the Native American tribes and a lot of Spanish names. Because of ASU and U of A a lot of people have heard of Tempe and Tucson and have given them various pronunciations.

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