Well, since we've gone this far...

I have yet to land on a singular pronunciation of "yo.". It can vary from
the hard Y as in "Joe" to "yo" like yo-yo.
My preliminary observation: the farther south one goes in LatAm, the
harder/stronger the "y", as in "Joe".  But better data is clearly needed.
I wonder if linguists have done any mapping of Spanish as has been done for
American usages?
-TJ
On Feb 23, 2014 6:50 PM, "Steve Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 2/23/14 6:36 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>
>  Xavier and Xalapa come to mind.   Both those "x"s are pronounced like
> "h".
>
> and Me"h"ico!
>
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