Re: [ranchos] Ranchos, Pueblos, Ciudades

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

Emilie,

 

For the most part when someone says ''Es mi pueblo'' it's usually meant as in That's my hometown regardless if it's a city, rancho, town, municipality or other. In using this term of ownership most of those I know say it with such love and pride and they openly claim that place as their own just as the town once claimed you. Of course you know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder and if things would have been so great, our ancestors never would have left home in search of something better.

 

I think the same occurs in english when one hears someone talking of their hometown wherever it may be.

 

Alicia, de San Jose California

 

Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:

My father used to refer to Jerez as "mi Pueblo".  Was that correct for his time (1913)?

 

The only other word he would use was "la ciudad de" when he spoke of the larger cities, especially when the city had the same name as the state.

 

Emilie Garcia

Port Orchard, WA

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