Friday, February 23, 2018

Manchack, Guadaloup et al.: Revisiting those Austin street names

A question that crosses the mind of any outsider moving to Austin, or even just visiting, is how a number of street names in this town came into their seemingly idiosyncratic pronunciations: think of the way that the names Guadalupe, Manchaca, Koenig or Mueller are pronounced here. The local ABC station KVUE has taken on this topic and produced a very thorough piece on it, featuring interview snippets with Lars Hinrichs.



Click here for the complete report on the KVUE website.

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