How we pronounce Uvalde says a lot about the power of language in mixed communities. | via NPR
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She says she encountered other examples as she got older, like the way people would say"Guada-LOOP" when referring to Guadalupe, the main stretch at UT in Austin, while she was studying there. And hearing those words in English didn't necessarily bother her — it's part of the code-switching that bilingual folks live with every day in the U.S.
She says the bottom line for her is to try to respect how people say their own names, or the name of their hometown.
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