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Porter Banister (porter9@concentric.net)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 02:18:45 -0500

Andy B. Wrote:


>Ahhh, Myron, you're an illusion breaker.  The Cubans don't tilde?
>I will face up to reality if it is really so.  But first, does anyone want
to
>jump into the discussion.

I'll jump in. The Cubans *do* tilde (as do all spanish speaking nations)
when the tilde is appropriate to the word. Since Habanero is pronounced
ah-bah-NAY-ro, and not
ah-bah-NYER-o, no tilde is called for. When Cubans spell Jalapeņo, the tilde
is both written and pronounced, because that chile is pronounced
ha-lah-PAIN-yo.


Hoping I Jumped Clearly,

Porter