Originally Posted by
HonoraryOrange
Wait, do people down there really pronounce it that way? With so many people (even non-latinos) who speak Spanish? ... is wrong with them? lol
Bear in mind that, demographically, California is very, very different from what it was as recently as the '70s. Prior to the '80s the Latino population was pretty tiny. A lot of the pronunciations developed during the time when Latino populations were much smaller.