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[Facts] Re: The Truth about the name Xochitl
You have the pronunciation so wrong it isn't even funny. Also it's obvious that you were told a tall tale about your ancestry, as there was no "Princess Xochitl" in Aztec society. This reeks of whiteness.
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And laredo land....i was scratching my head on tbis one
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Not Aztec, but there may have been a Toltec Queen see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochitl_(Toltec)
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Uh... It's her name? She pronounced it how she pronounces it, which, to her, is the 'correct' pronunciation.
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I'm always amused when someone corrects another on the pronunciation of their name!
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She doesn't give "her" pronunciation, she purports to give the "Aztec" pronunciation, which she gets wrong (the tl represents the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, a rare affricate found in some Central/North American languages and Icelandic; the second element of the affricate, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative |ɬ|, is more common, found in Welsh, Icelandic (in both spelled ll), some Norwegian and Swedish dialects (l in the pairs lt and tl), some Caucasian, African and Asian languages and many Central/North American languages. It seems to arise by leveling of the alveolar lateral approximant |l| with the adjacent voiceless alveolar stop |t|. It's a difficult phoneme that if you didn't grow up speaking, you probably can't wrap your tongue around.
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