# Spelling Albuquerque **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501 "2015-04-25T05:57:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/21 "2015-04-26T17:04:39Z")
When spelling it, I always think: albu-kwer-kway, which helps me get it right. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/22 "2015-04-27T05:48:45Z")
New Mexicans usually just shorten it to Abiquiu. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/23 "2015-04-27T06:21:07Z")
The wiki thing lists ā€œBurqueƱoā€ as one of the demonyms. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/24 "2015-04-27T13:34:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The wiki thing lists ā€œBurqueƱoā€ as one of the demonyms. I can get behind that. Growing up in NM, we frequently referred to Albuquerque as ā€œBurqueā€ (pronounced BOOR-keh) with a Spanish accent. Apropos of nothing, one of the TV stations there has the call letters KRQE, which they use to make slogans using the word ā€œAlbuKRQEā€. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/25 "2015-04-27T15:07:50Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > New Mexicans usually just shorten it to Abiquiu. > > šŸ˜‰ I donā€™t recall that at all. And there really is an [Abiquiu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiqui%C3%BA,_New_Mexico), in the northern part of the state. Was that a whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/26 "2015-04-27T15:35:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Thereā€™s a pitcher that my baseball team often faces named Al Albuquerque. Iā€™ve been writing about every game my team plays now for 5 years, and Iā€™ve gotten good at it. Probably after 2 or 3 times having to write it. Apparently you _havenā€™t_ gotten good at it, because he retains the ā€œrā€! Like the Spaniards, not the New Mexicans. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/27 "2015-04-27T15:44:34Z")
New Mexico has to have a lot of odd demonyms. What do you call a person from ā€¢ Los Lunas? ā€¢ Raton? ā€¢ Gallup? ā€¢ Eagle Nest? ā€¢ Truth or Consequences? ā€¢ Los Ojos? (I only just figured out how ā€œojoā€ is used that way) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/28 "2015-04-27T16:10:49Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > New Mexicans usually just shorten it to Abiquiu. > > šŸ˜‰ Itā€™s been a couple of years since I was last there, but isnā€™t ABQ (after the airport) still more common? ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/29 "2015-04-27T16:17:15Z")
I guess when [Al Alburquerque](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Alburquerque) decides to take residence in Albuquerque, things start to get a little bit confusing. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/30 "2015-04-27T17:12:12Z")
[quote=ā€œWendell\_Wagner, post:5, topic:718501ā€] The narrator in Weird Al Yankovicā€™s song canā€™t spell Albuquerque: [/QUOTE] I came here to say that. One glow-in-the-dark snorkel for you! Brian ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501/31 "2015-04-27T23:08:03Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > ā€¦Apropos of nothing, one of the TV stations there has the call letters KRQE, which they use to make slogans using the word ā€œAlbuKRQEā€. Back in the early 80s I once drove through ABQ on the way to hell and was listening to the state of the art AM radio in my fine late 1960s car. The station ID was KRKE, the format was Country and Western, heavy on the Western and their jingle was ā€œYouā€™re in Kurkey countryā€ (rhymes with turkey), followed by a gobbling tom. I donā€™t know why I remember that, and damn near nothing else of broadcast radio of rest of that decade, but there you have it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-albuquerque/718501.md?page=1)