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[kphoger]

I must say, though, now you've got me imagining a fancy Mexican restaurant somewhere in Chicago calling chilaquiles 'deconstructed enchiladas, with salsa de pico de pájaro' and then charging twice the price for them.  Kind of like how toasted day-old bread rubbed with olive oil and bits of yesterday's leftovers sounds fancier and costs more if you call it 'bruschetta'...

[JayhawkCO]

To be fair, there is a slight difference in the method of cooking scrambled eggs vs. an omelette though.

There is a slight difference in the method of cooking chilaquiles vs. enchiladas, too... 

But again, only because one was fried in the first place.

[Scott5114]

They manage to not pronounce Nevada correctly

IMHO, that's forgivable, considering the 'correct' pronunciation butchers the Spanish more than the 'wrong' one does.

But the Spanish word means "snowy" and most of Nevada is not snowy (it is the driest state), so we don't pronounce it like the Spanish because it doesn't mean the same thing as the Spanish word does anymore.

We basically stole the spelling and invented an entirely new, unrelated word out of it.

(Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words. If they did they wouldn't pronounce Martinez like that...)

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

[kphoger]

Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words.

Oh, geez, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, to hear Brits try and say Spanish words.

[GaryV]

Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words.

Oh, geez, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, to hear Brits try and say Spanish words.

Brits try and say Spanish words

Or French. The T in "fillet" is not pronounced. But we can't spell, the extra L is superfluous.

[kphoger]

Or French. The T in "fillet" is not pronounced. But we can't spell, the extra L is superfluous.

Just from watching the Food Network, I've started to suspect they pronounce as a verb differently than as a noun.  You fil-AY a piece of meat and end up with a FILL-it.  I could be wrong.