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Shit-comment: I sometimes wonder, when
peopleEnglish-speakers pronounce the word audibly or just in their heads, do they actually visualise small bands of gorillas fighting off larger human armies? Are they making a Planet of the Apes connection? :DYes.
Though I obviously don’t speak for everyone.
I guess the unstated joke is that “guerilla” is in fact pronounced like “geh-r-riya.”
When I was younger, for some reason I thought it was pronounced like a large ape species.
I’ve only ever heard people pronounce it with the L sound, and dictionary.com only lists one pronunciation, and it includes the L. Despite the word being borrowed from Spanish, we didn’t keep the pronunciation like we did with, e.g., “tortilla”.
Good point, but one which also maybe shows how this kind of thing can be completely arbitrary. I.e., there’s nothing else in English that sounds like “tor-til-a,” so in most ways it doesn’t really matter, same as with the Texan city of Amarillo.
“Guerilla,” however…
