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azbackpackr
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PostPosted: 11/4/2008, 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

These changes in pronunciation do occur with time, and there is probably not much you can do about it. I think of the area called Poway, in San Diego County. When I was a kid a subdivision was built there, and later on, I-15 was built, and now the area is very heavily populated. The change in pronunciation was probably inevitable. Original pronunciation was "pow wye" but now everyone says "pow way." There are few old-timers left who actually remember the original, according to a friend of mine who still lives there.
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PostPosted: 8/3/2009, 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

How do you pronounce "Cashion?" CASH yun? Cash-ee-OWN? Kuh SHOWN?

(In Yuma, on the CA side of the river, there is the Quechan Indian reservation and casino. I wonder if Cashion is a bastardization of Quechan, which is pronounced "kuh SHAWN." I had no idea how to pronounce Quechan until I asked a local, that's for sure! I do know that several Yuma-area tribes migrated to Maricopa about 150 years ago or more, and they still speak the same language. I read a book about it.)

Houck? Is it "huke" or "howk?" (It's on the Navajo Rez.)

Harcuvar? Is it "har cue var?" or "har coo var?"

Incidentally, I've noticed that the most commonly misspelled word (with the exception of "its" and "it's") on AZH and everywhere else on the internet is not a place name, but the word "definitely." Have seen it definately, definetely, etc., etc.

Just think de finite and you can remember it. This is de finite answer. Wink
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PostPosted: 8/3/2009, 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hmmm.... A casino huh? Maybe Cash ee own (cash yee own to spend in the Casino?) Wink Just teasing

I wouldn't of had a clue... My guess would have been your last "kuh Shown" but I'm not really good with stuff like that.

I alway spell definitely wrong... then I look at it cuz it doesn't look right, that's when I look it up Rolling Eyes Maybe I'll remember now
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azbackpackr
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PostPosted: 8/4/2009, 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Quechan/Cashion relationship?? Well, in case you don't know where Cashion is, it's in the Valley, in Avondale, and is just north of Maricopa Village. That is what made me think the name is Native American, because it may also be pronounced similarly to Quechan, and because of the historic relationship between the Maricopas and and the Indians from Yuma. (It's a long, complicated history involving a lot of warfare, migration and several different tribes with unpronounceable names which formed the Maricopa tribe.)

As for the casino, I was talking about the one on the CA side of the river in Yuma, (not the brand-new one by I-8.) It is less than 5 minutes from downtown Yuma. You drive over the Colorado River by means of the one-way Ocean-to-Ocean bridge and you're there. (If you have never driven across the one-way bridge over the Colorado, that is one reason to get off the freeway on your way to San Diego! However, it's a lot more fun to float under the bridge in a kayak!

In the photo below I am approaching 2 bridges. (I-8 bridge is around the bend in the river.) The first one is the railroad bridge. Just behind it is the Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge. You can sort of see the lettering on it in the photo, (it's backwards.) On my right is the Quechan Reservation, and the casino is about 1/4 mile down on the other side of that sandy bluff. Incidentally, if you drive across the old bridge (it has stoplights which allow traffic to cross, first east, then west, which can be seen in the photo) from Yuma, then make the first right onto a dirt road, you will be on the levee road. This road will take you along the river to Laguna Dam and Imperial Dam. It is a really neat drive up on the levee, with views of date palm farms and other farms, and the river, and the jaggedy Chocolate mountains in the distance.

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PostPosted: 8/6/2009, 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Ok, still looking for answers: How to pronounce Cashion (which is near Avondale) and is it a derivative of a Native American word?
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