Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-06-28
More About Names
Spanish and Others

of yout recent remarks, on whats
In Nance"
when ! was down in the West In
dies ! had Il dawn on me that There
were a few more. Mosquito D. moth
Ing bat two. or one Spanish word
"mosca'' ~. and "ito' the 1iminu-
iivc-that 81. little fiy. and ''Picka-
ninny" ~ nothing but the two spanish
words "ncqucno nino" meaning little
child. although now applied wholly 20
little negro children
Ono evening In the hotel AZ San
Juan. Porto Rico I was trying 10 de-
cipher the spanish bin OF fare and
wondered shat sort 81 n dish "Aris.
80 De Carfiero" was. when bi-linguai
friend sitting beside me took hts pcn-
cii and wrote II shin way. saying this
4 the way 20 translate that: Mutton
Irish stew
The adult spanlard when making
m effort 10 pronounce an English
wors viii Invariably put vowel
sound befo9e and after any word that
begins and ends with consonanl.
and - ne will always say "Esmlte"
for smith. and "Mlkay" for Mike. etc.
F w. Dunlap OF Albuquerque years
ago. had 3 time getting his sheep
hefders 20 realize that the "Dnn" part
OF his aAfs.e. did n.ss mean the Span
lxh Don. and he never could get them
10 call him anything but Don Lapis
(afr. Pcncii) Judge McComas years
ago. not Knowing any spanish, never
could understand why the natives all
laughed az his name, for 60 them
4 meant me comas. or Mr. Eat More.
70 they called him eenor Me comas
Chill
A letter years ago was delayed In
delivery AZ Albuquerque for several
weeks until they got spanish clerk
In the poatoffice. II WAS addressed
70 the late Hon. Thomas Hughes OF
the Citlxen, hut II was addressed "Sr
Don Tomas Juls. Albuquerque. n. NJ"
The late Uncle Sohn Hill OF old Albu-
querque. never could get the natives
% spell his name otherwise than Juan
Oil. and 20 Il goes The native New
Mexican will spell any English word
as II sounds TO him as he knows the
Hay 60" and the Hota ~" In Span
lsh. They cali brother Twltchell. Sc
nor Truehas (Mr. Trout)
Good bishop Jones OF the Catholic
diocese of Porto Rico. Is lovingly re-
ferred e. by the natives as El Obispo
Homes (Jones). Years ago Chief
1ilsfice O,Bricn Of New Mexico. APP
pointed Hon. NJ. A. Otero TO some OF
flee. and Russ Kistier. of the Las We
gas optic intimated that the good
chief Justice thought he wrote his
name with an apostrophe after the
10. old man Fred Burris OF Albu-
oueraue, never could get the natives
TO call him other than Don Federico
RurroE. and the son ~ good Gcr-
man soldier named Koenig CKingl
became Hunick. became senior
Rodos and the Hubbell family be-
came TO the natives Holidays. And
so II Il always, names get mixed and
translated.
The French Canadians In New
England have almost lost trace OF
their origin in many instances. Pier
re Poulin became by translation Peter
Colt, Jean Rousseau became John
Brooks and Jean Baptiste L8Force
became ]. u. strong while Francois
Benolt became euphoniously Frank
Benware.
Until few years ago and even yet
In some places Yankees will not pro-
nounce % foreign name a French
man came many years ago with his
wife and infant son % California.
The father died without having be.
come a citizen Of the United States.
Hts name was D'estimauville. The
son grew up and went 10 school ana
college Ills college ehums short
ened his name 10 Desty, and 80 tho
hoy sensibly adopted Il. lie after
wards became a great law writer and
nuthor and produced many works
such az nesiy's Federal Procedure,
etc. when California amended her
constitution, he was elected az tho
most eminent man In the state for
that work hut some mean partisan
brought up tho question OF his clti-
zcnship and shut him out Of his seat,
aud the state lost the benefit Of his
great mind IN the romodeling Of her
organic law.
But under the new immigration act
81 congress any person coming 10
this country can when taking the
certificate change his or her name
from what u was 70 any new name
desired This n q good thing. and
many take advantage OF a. Very
truly yours.
w. $. RODEY.
Seattle. Wash June 2S.