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azbackpackr · by **azbackpackr** » Jul 11 2011 10:01 am

And I'm actually Lizard Bath.

big_load · by **big_load** » Jul 11 2011 10:16 am

te-wa wrote:just as it seems to me to sound like "tay-wah" but the "t" is kinda dull, like a t+d together.

Is that how it's pronounced in Tewa? I don't think I'd know if it I heard it.

te-wa · by **te-wa** » Jul 11 2011 11:42 am

there is a similarity between Cherokee and Te-wa language. (just as there is w/ navajo/apache/inuit)
Te-wa being a tribe and language right here in AZ. However, the Cherokee word is not a reference to the people or their cultural and linguistic similarites/differences, it simply means "flying squirrel".

PLC92084 · by **PLC92084** » Jul 11 2011 11:56 am

te-wa wrote:it simply means "flying squirrel".

Rocky is so much easier !

big_load · by **big_load** » Jul 11 2011 12:49 pm

te-wa wrote:there is a similarity between Cherokee and Te-wa language.

Ooh, that's my extremely interesting fact of the day.

I knew that it wasn't an Uto-Aztecan language, but I didn't know what it was related to. One of the books I'm reading discusses possible links from the Southwest to the Mississippian cultures.

te-wa · by **te-wa** » Jul 11 2011 3:39 pm

i wondered now te-wa language had any similarity to cherokee or other midwest? tribes.. please tell what you find. and for colonel sanders' sake.. prounounce it right! :sl:

Alston Neal · by **Alston Neal** » Jul 12 2011 11:19 am

te-wa wrote:the true pronunciation of te-wa is just between you and me.. so dont go tellin' everybody. its "terd wad"

I knew we were related.. :sl:

Tewa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken by some of the New Mexico pueblos...Santa Clara, Pojoaque, Nambe, Tesuque and the non Hopi group at First Mesa Hano. The group at Hopi were a major part of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which caused them to go to the Hopi for protection. The Hopis allowed them to stay so they could help protect them from the Paiutes and Navajos.
To this day the village of Hano wants to become a separate entity, much to the happiness of some Hopis.
To some of the Hopis they are still considered to be foreigners.

Trishness · by **Trishness** » Jul 15 2011 8:17 pm

Ima gonna say "down yonder".......that will simplify everything for me :y:

No need to wonder about pronunciation

Trish

azbackpackr · by **azbackpackr** » Jul 16 2011 2:58 pm

In Flag I've noticed everyone pronounces "Switzer" Canyon with a long "i," whereas, from its spelling, I would think it was a short "i." Makes me wonder if the original family pronounced it that way or not.

Oh, and people say Riordan as "Ree OR den" whereas I know for a fact that the original AZ family said, and still says, "Rearden." My son has a friend whose last name is Riordan, a descendant of the original pioneer family, and that's where I got that tidbit of trivia.

kingsnake · by **kingsnake** » Jul 16 2011 3:20 pm

In Scotland it is rye-or-dan ...

chumley · by **chumley** » Jun 25 2012 4:43 pm

Anybody know the official way to say Tuthill? As in the Fort-Park in Flagstaff.

toot-hill?
tuht-hill?
tooth-uhl?
tuttle?

azbackpackr · by **azbackpackr** » Jun 25 2012 4:58 pm

Hmm... I think the locals say something close to "tuttle."

Outdoor Lover · by **Outdoor Lover** » Jun 25 2012 5:37 pm

Your second choice. tuht-hill

azbackpackr · by **azbackpackr** » Jun 25 2012 5:48 pm

Outdoor Lover wrote:Your second choice. tuht-hill

Are you sure? I always did say tuht-hill, but I am thinking when I lived in Flag that I heard people saying "tuttle."

I'll ask my daughter. She still lives in Flag.

I tend to like to go with local pronunciations. Usually, but not always. It nearly drove me nuts when I lived in Tucson to hear most people saying the street name "La Can AH da" instead of the proper pronunciation of "La Can YAH da." It is spelled correctly on the street signs, with the tilde: La Cañada.

What can I say? I am easily driven nuts?

azbackpackr · by **azbackpackr** » Jun 25 2012 6:08 pm

OK, I talked to my daughter. She said, "I say Tuht-hill, but a lot of people just say "Tuttle."

Al_HikesAZ · by **Al_HikesAZ** » Jun 25 2012 6:12 pm

I listen to KAFF Country 92.9 and I'm pretty sure they say Fort TUHT-hill - accent on the Tuht with an almost imperceptible "h: on the hill part. almost like TUHT-ill. If you can't trust KAFF Country, who can you trust So who you going to believe - me or your ears.

Trishness · by **Trishness** » Jun 28 2012 8:03 pm

Al_HikesAZ wrote:I listen to KAFF Country 92.9 and I'm pretty sure they say Fort TUHT-hill - accent on the Tuht with an almost imperceptible "h: on the hill part. almost like TUHT-ill. If you can't trust KAFF Country, who can you trust So who you going to believe - me or your ears.

I would agree that it is Fort TUHT-hill, as least that's the way I say it. Anyone from Lawng-Island might have a ball with this one and call it FAWT tuttle......thankfully there's not too many "r's" to be lost in it.

beterarcher · by **beterarcher** » Aug 20 2012 6:31 pm

Al_HikesAZ wrote:
But OORAH is my native tongue.

hey AL, SEMPER FI , I wasn't there, but I care!

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