The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-09
TKEIR CORRECT SOUND.

Mispronouucing the Names of the Worlds
Threo Great Trotters.
It is odd that the names of the three
m cat celebrated horses in the world to-day
ars mispronounosd as a general thing
Those three are Paio Alto, Sunol and Arion
Column after COLUMN has been writer
about them ever since last fall, bur it ii
probable that of the writer's themselves
not one in ton know how the names of the
great trio should be pronounced. And 1t Ii
equally probable that not one in ten know
what significance the names carry WIZ
them.
1t may shock the horse-world horribly tc
learn that the great two. year-old stall'on,s
name when correctly pronounced SOUNDS
almost as Irish rs the name of Who constel-
lstion Orion. The latter is pronounced aa
il it were spelled O'Ryan. The name Arion
is pronounced the same as Osion, save that
the initial sound il that of A instead of
that of o. Tho ictus is on the second syl-
lab.e, and the i has the long sound, rs in
the word .'wine.'' Most people i'll speaking
OF Arion put tho ictus on the A and give 1t
| the long sound. This pronunciation is In
correct. r.,
"Arion'' Is II Greek proper name. The
owner Of that name was a Famous musician
of Tesnos and a friend Of Coriander, king of
| Corinth. 1he myth is told OF him tnat
| when returning home from Sicily, where he
had amassed great riches. tho sailors de-
tesmined to throw him overheard ana selze
his treasures. Discovering the plot. he
bepc ed permission to play one melodious
inns before it was put into execution, and,
having done 80, threw himself into the sea.
TIE dClphins, charmed by his music. car
ried him on their backs to Taenarus. whence
he passed over to Corinth; and on the AT
rival of the ship he had the sailors put 70
death.
The name of the world-beating two-year-
old stallion has been SO generally mis-
pronounced, however, that most likely the
correct accommodation has been erman
emily lost sight of. Even Charles Marvin
himself, who brought the ,youngster up In
the way he should 80, calls nm A-rlon.
The two words Palo Alto are Spanish ana
should be pronounced as sncn. Inc q
should have the broad soErd, as the a IN
''father.'' and the final Latter, o. should
have the long sound as Q III tone Inc
lotus should be on the first syllable. Prop
erly pronounced the words are Fa an AM
palo means literally a stick, bu il IS also
used to designate u tree having q tall,
straight trunk. The Palo Alto stables got
their names from the place where
they were located ard that
place was named Paio ave
because there was an exceptionally tall ana
straight tree growing Oh it.. The early Cal
ifornians were accustomed to name their
ranches in accordance with some cireum-
stance often trivial in itself. For instance,
EI Rancho de Los Pesos was so named be-
cause of many water-holes on it, the word
"a well) being used to designate such q
hole: Ell Rancko Pescadero. because a fish
erman lived on it, p%escadero meaning
"fshermen;'' Ell Rancho del Campo
de Los Franchises, because some
Frenchmen had established a camp
on it; Yerba Buena (the old name
for San Francisco), because of the fact that
the herb known as yerba buena good herb
grew plentifully at that place. II like
manner the place Palo Alto most likely
derived it's name.
Tho name Sunol is also Spanish. and
should be pronounced with the ictus on the
last syllable, and by giving the letter n the
sound of ny. The word is pronounced as 1t
it were written soon-yole, the double-o IN
soon having the sound of doubled IN
"~foot''-not the broad sound of double-o IN
moon
Sunol is Spanish proper name which
was we'll known to the early Californians--
that is, those who lived in California before
the days of the gold fever. Antonio Maria
Sunol was a native of Spain and served IN
the French navy. He came to this state in
the French naval vessel Bordelais in 1917,
and deserted the service the following year.
During his lifetime he held various proml-
nent offices in this state under Mexican
rule and acquired large possessions. He
died in 1865, leaving an excellent Ieputa
ton. The Sunol valley was named after
him.-Stockton Mail.