# Pronunciacions that make you seethe with anger!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978 "2008-03-27T22:06:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/261 "2008-04-10T00:07:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Starving Artist]  
I’ve never been able to believe that the Steely Dan brianiacs could come up with a line that says, “I detect **the El Supremo** from the room at the top of the stairs.” (From _Showbiz Kids_)  
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I thought it referred to a brand of cigar.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/262 "2008-04-10T00:14:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
I thought it referred to a brand of cigar.  
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I bet you’re right. :smack:

Thanks.

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/263 "2008-04-10T03:30:48Z")

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Well, as I say, there are very few Hispanics in Australia and it’s just not a language one comes across in the normal course of things. Los Angeles and Los Alamos may be literally plurals, but of course refer to singular objects so I guess _feel_ singular.

Anyway, this is all speculation for the benefit of whoever it was who wondered how I came to be under the misapprehension re nacho/nachos, I don’t actually know the answer.

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