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by msla 1059 days ago
> Los Ángeles

Why the accent? Is it not the one in California?

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Almost certainly autocorrect. Bilingual devices sometimes forget (or mistake) the language you’re typing in. I’m typing this on a Spanish keyboard, for example.
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Reminds me of the runin I had with someone from San Rafael north of SF. They corrected me when I pronounced it as the spanish name it is. Apparently it's officially pronounced ra-fell, and they're adamant about it.
Our town is Buena Vista, the first word is pronounced "Bew-nuh" -- and it's not strictly local, horse saddles were produced here in the early 1900s until I guess sometime before WW2, and old-timers who worked horses in the surrounding states know the local pronunciation!

The conflict aversion way to pronounce it is "BV" :P

It's pronounced 'Bew-nuh' in both Virginia and Colorado.
That's the spanish spelling of the city's name.
It's just a mistake they made due to their keyboard localization settings.

Finish the comment to confirm ;]