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Please humor me... Given how Colorado pronounces Byoona Vista, how is "Guanella" pronounced? Is it more like Gwah-nela, or Wah-naya, or Wah-nela? Or Guacamole (jk of course, really wondering the correct pronunseeashun).
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BTW - I did search the forum with "pronounce Guanella" and didn't find anything.
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I never considered this in the past but I just found out about 'Byoona-Vista' so now I am curious. I say Gwah-nella but I am also a fairly recent transplant.
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Juan-eller, rolls right off the tongue.
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greenonion wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:57 am Please humor me... Given how Colorado pronounces Byoona Vista, how is "Guanella" pronounced?
"Byoona Vista" annoys me to no end ](*,)
Gwahn-ella for Guanella Pass for me.
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E_A_Marcus_949 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:21 pm
greenonion wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:57 am Please humor me... Given how Colorado pronounces Byoona Vista, how is "Guanella" pronounced?
"Byoona Vista" annoys me to no end ](*,)
Gwahn-ella for Guanella Pass for me.
Totally agree. I heard somewhere that the town's founders originally intended it's Americanized pronunciation in a charter or something, but I don't know if true, or if there's more to the back story. Thank goodness we can just say "BV."
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E_A_Marcus_949 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:21 pm "Byoona Vista" annoys me to no end ](*,)
Me, as well. I refuse to give in and so pronounce it as it should be "Bwayna Vista".
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I think the correct pronunciation is Gwah-naya, like Quesa-di-ya, but I hear most ppl say say Gwah-nela
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The town’s name has been pronounced “BEW-na Vista” instead of the Spanish “BWAY-na Vista” ever since it was founded. Its nickname is “BEW-nie.” It all came about at a meeting in 1879, when residents and property owners in the area at the convergence of Cottonwood Creek and the Arkansas River held a meeting to create a formal community. They had been told that would help attract a railroad line (eventually it attracted three). Two names were proposed by attendees: Collegiate Peaks, after the mountains in the area, and Buena Vista, which means “beautiful view” in Spanish, certainly an appropriate description.

Alsina Dearheimer, the resident and property owner who suggested the name Buena Vista, certainly knew how the Spanish words were pronounced, her first husband having been a language and music professor. But she insisted that the pronunciation for the town name be Americanized into “BEW-na,” borrowing the first syllable of the English word beautiful. Her suggestion carried the day. An interesting anomaly was born, and Dearheimer became known as the Mother of BEW-na Vista. To this day long time residents carry on the tradition and say “Bewna Vista”. If it is hard for visitors to swallow, it is suggested they just say “BEWNIE” or BV.
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Gwah-nela

From Wikipedia....

"The pass was named for Byron Guanella in 1953. Guanella was a road supervisor and commissioner in Clear Creek County for nearly 50 years."
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Dave B wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:50 pmAh-void
+1 and that's funny.

Reminds me of the thread when Brett Maune was giving the 14ers speed record a go, and there was a question about how to pronounce his last name. The winning entry that pretty much ended the conservation was the way who stated" "I believe it is pronounced BADA$$."

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