What Would Darwin Do?

[Barry Roth]

This may well win the prize for the most irrelevant query of the year, but I can't keep from wondering how the eminent Charles himself would have pronounced the name of that famous archipelago, the Galápagos.  I think most English merchant seamen of the day would have said Galley-PAY-goes.  Although he was of a very different social class, isn't it possible that Darwin, too, spoke some Anglicized version of the Spanish toponym?

Barry Roth



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