Talk:Los Banos, California
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[edit] Banos vs Baños
I'm not so sure that the name of this city really is the sensible and meaningful "Los Baños" rather than the irksome and meaningless "Los Banos".
The following sources all spell it without the eñe:
- the official city website [1]
- the city chamber of commerce [2]
- Google maps [3]
- Geocenter "US West" paper map
- Insight Atlas Consise World Atlas
- Yahoo! maps [4]
- Philip's World Atlas 2004 edition
- The school district [5]
- The local hospital [6]
- The federal bureau of reclamation [7]
- The california park service [8]
- The california DMV [9]
That said:
- if memory serves, road signs do have the eñe. That said, here's a photo of one that doesn't: [10]
- I've never heard anyone pronounce it the painful "los bay-nos" rather than the correct "los ban-yos", so it clearly should have one
- The local evangelical church (mostly) spells it with the eñe [11]
Comments? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 10:21, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
I frequently drive up and down highway 5, and have never seen an eñe. For what that's worth, at least... KamuiShirou 06:34, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Another sign without it - [12] --SPUI (talk) 00:19, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, guys. Even if there was an eñe I'd be suspicious that some indignant spanish speaker hadn't put it on with whiteout themselves :) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:27, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to... As a former resident born and raised in Los Banos in the days when it was still a small town, I was taught to call the town of Los Banos simply Lǒs BǍ-nōs (except when I was in Spanish class). Here is an Anglicized (no eñes to be found) History of Los Banos. Seriously, in the pre-Gold Rush days, California was a province of Mexico and before that it was part of the Spanish empire. Today, it's easier to type in diacritics; typists of the eary California history books were probably too lazy to make it right. --Chuck-meister
