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Kershaw Seguin A/O Frame Lock Knife

Hatuletoh

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Feb 22, 2019

Are there any Texans around? If so, tell the crowd how to pronounce the name of this knife in the proper Texan way, which is not, btw, how a Spanish-speaker would say it. I think I know, having asked my waitress at the restaurant in Seguin, TX how to say it, but I'd rather an expert handle it--i was only in Seguin long enough to eat.

14themoney

1395

Jul 30, 2019

HatuletohSuh-geen. Hard g. That's what I always heard for the first 24 years of my life. And a lot of that was from San Antonio people.

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Hatuletoh

850

Aug 2, 2019

14themoneyWell, that's how you would say it with a proper Spanish accent, at least a Mexican Spanish one, which is the only Spanish I'm familiar with. But it's not exactly how my waitress at the Johnny Reb Cafe in Seguin, TX pronounced it (some 20 yrs ago now). She said it with a short "u" for the first and second vowel sounds, so it was: "suh-GUHN". I also heard it from other less-drawly Texans as "seh-GUHN", but even they didn't say it with the long E, like the Spanish word/name it is, which means "follower", I think, or maybe just "follow"? I'd check google translate but I'm lazy. The name is all over Texas because Señor Juan Seguin was the leader of group of Tejanos who fought for secession from Mexico, and helped to establish the independent Republic of Texas. He's probably most famous as the luckiest man at the Alamo, i.e., the one chosen to sneak through the lines to deliver the famous (in Texas, at least) "we shall never surrender!" letter and plea for assistance from the Alamo commander Col. Travis. To Seguin's credit, he did come back with cpl hundred men, but the fighting was over by then. I spent a lot of time working in TX, mostly in San Antonio area; what always cracked me up about Texans was how they just ignore inconvenient letters in Spanish place names. Like the I in Seguin, or my favorite, the county San Antonio is in. It's called "Bexar County", which is pronounced "BEHR", that is, just as one would say grizzly BEAR. Just pretend that X isn't there. Or the famous Battle of San Jacinto. Every other Spanish name that starts with a J Texans pronounce with the proper H sound, but "hah-SEEN-toh" over-taxes the drawl, what with the long E and too many consonants, so now it's the Battle of San "juh-SIN-oh".

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