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You Say Tomato, I Say Los Feliz

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Do you say Los FEE-lus or Los Fey-LEASE? However you say it, it's is at the heart of a growing trend away from the Anglicized pronunciations of the Spanish names all around us: "Rancho Los Feliz became Los FEE-lus. La bahía de San Pedro, San PEE-dro. El Segundo, Elsie Gunndo. And when left to Sam Yorty, a Nebraska native who served as L.A. mayor four decades ago, 'Los An-gel-lus' -- already a big jump from el pueblo de los Ángeles -- got a sort-of nasal pronunciation with a hard-g Law SANG-lus." [LA Times]