Tag: Pronounced

NYC graffiti culture was exploding in the late ‘70s. The outlaw art form continued to spread like a virus as train-painting writers evolved the craft with increasingly complex lettering and the incorporation of more and more imagery into their productions. Take one look at the collections o...

Over the years, I’ve come across the same question again and again, always some variation on the following: “Why is Mexico spelled ‘México’ in Spanish, especially if in Nahuatl Mēxihco was pronounced [meshiko]? What’s up with that ‘x’?” T...