On 03/29/11 8:16 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
This
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Crestone,_Colorado
is the village I live in. Perhaps the rule have been bent a bit, but I don't really see that civilization has been harmed, by doing so. What is a reliable source varies with the context.
And it's still missing a pronunciation. My instinct suggests that it should rhyme with "bone", but my experience questions my instincts.
It is very difficult for someone that is rule-bound to exercise the judgement necessary to adapt reliability to circumstance. There is always the lurking fear that a massive conspiracy is afoot to distort the image of a village of 73 souls.
Ec