Something you might not have known: How Martinez got its name
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I love to hear folk try to pronounce the name: MAWTNEZZ is how I pronounce it.
Something you and your Latin American? teacher might not have known, Martinez has been Mar ten ezz since before you were both born and will always be that to the one’s of us who were raised there. So study as you might, look up till the cows come home, it won’t change the fact. “We do it this way because we don’t like outsiders telling us how to live”
That’s how I have heard it and said if for the 30 years I have lived in Col County.
The pronunciation difference is for obvious reasons. We tend to pronounce things phonectically if we have not learned it differently already.
I thought there were two syllables in the last “e”, (mɑr-tɪ-ˈnɛ-ŭz)