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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Charming Kip
A charming Kip Behar is believed to have posed for Kris
I was at school with a boy called Behar who had very similar looks and compact musculature. He was in my athletics team. It's a Sephardic Jewish name and I now wonder whether they might have been related.
I've also seen the surname as an Anglicized version of Bexar, sometimes spelled Bejar, a Spanish town. One guy in Texas even told me that his family got tired of having it mispronounced and changed the spelling. The original official name of the City of San Antonio was San Antonio de Bexar, and the county is still called Bexar.
Now, that is very interesting. But it wouldn't have been an Anglicized version. In Spanish, the "X" used to carry the sound of the jota which is the letter "J" in Castilian - a guttural, like "ch" in the Scottish "loch". This is retained your side of the Antlantic in México. The European spelling is today Méjico. It's the same for Texas and Tejas. The "jota" is harder in Latin America than in Spain. In Ladino, the Jewish socioilect of Spanish - equivalent of Yiddish as a version of High German - it softens even further, becoming a "J" as in the French. So an aspirate "H" is used to retain a hint of the original. Bexar, Bejar and Behar are all variations of the same name along phonetic lines.
I speak fluent Spanish because we used some Mexican seasonal workers on the ranch when I was a kid. On a visit to the Doi Suthep Temple near Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Spanish speaking tour guide didn't show up, and I overheard the management asking the English speaking guides if any spoke Spanish. None did, so I volunteered and translated for an expat English guide. When the tour was done, the Spanish tourists, each and every one, personally thanked me. One of them said, "You have the cutest Mexican accent, and I mean that as a compliment." In Mexican Spanish the letter "H" is always silent, and the guttural "ch" as "X" has almost disappeared in modern times, being only heard in remote regions and from certain professorial types. Ladino fascinates me, but it's hard to find modern speakers.
X for h and j is used by the Asturians in their very distinct dialect of Spanish. Perhaps of Asturian descent. Many immigrants from Spain came from Asturias. Centro Asturianos clubs could be found in NYC, Buenos Aires, Havanna, Mexico City, etc. The Asturias region is in the north of Spain on the Bay of Biscay/ Atlantic Ocean.....:)
An "H" is also nominally silent in Ladino except where it replaces a jota - x or j - in Castilian. (This is so in most if not all Romance languages because the original aspirate "H" in Latin dropped away as the Classical pronunciation gave way to the Vulgate.) I did joint honours in French and Castilian. I learnt my ancestral Ladino from the mother of a friend of mine, born in Bulgaria, a former part of the Ottoman Empire, which took in many of the Sephardi Jews after the expulsion in 1492 and came to England as a refugee after the war. Ladino is somewhere between Portuguese and Castilian, but with a bit of patience and humour can be readily understood by Catalan and Leonese speakers as well. (In Catalan, the "X" renders the English "CH" as in "church".) The easiest of all, for me, was with the Portuguese dialect of the Azores, which is less elided than standard European Portuguese. I was told I looked remarkably young for someone speaking so old a language - but then, flattery will get you far!
Herr Behar, so gutaussehend und fit. Was mit seiner Haarfarbe, es andert sich wie ein Chamaeleon ! Blondische blondie auf einem foto und dunkelhaarig auf einem anderen Foto. Wie der schone Mike Sill ! War es ein Hollywood-Ding ? -austriche
I was at school with a boy called Behar who had very similar looks and compact musculature. He was in my athletics team. It's a Sephardic Jewish name and I now wonder whether they might have been related.
ReplyDeleteI've also seen the surname as an Anglicized version of Bexar, sometimes spelled Bejar, a Spanish town. One guy in Texas even told me that his family got tired of having it mispronounced and changed the spelling. The original official name of the City of San Antonio was San Antonio de Bexar, and the county is still called Bexar.
DeleteNow, that is very interesting. But it wouldn't have been an Anglicized version. In Spanish, the "X" used to carry the sound of the jota which is the letter "J" in Castilian - a guttural, like "ch" in the Scottish "loch". This is retained your side of the Antlantic in México. The European spelling is today Méjico. It's the same for Texas and Tejas. The "jota" is harder in Latin America than in Spain. In Ladino, the Jewish socioilect of Spanish - equivalent of Yiddish as a version of High German - it softens even further, becoming a "J" as in the French. So an aspirate "H" is used to retain a hint of the original. Bexar, Bejar and Behar are all variations of the same name along phonetic lines.
DeleteI speak fluent Spanish because we used some Mexican seasonal workers on the ranch when I was a kid. On a visit to the Doi Suthep Temple near Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Spanish speaking tour guide didn't show up, and I overheard the management asking the English speaking guides if any spoke Spanish. None did, so I volunteered and translated for an expat English guide. When the tour was done, the Spanish tourists, each and every one, personally thanked me. One of them said, "You have the cutest Mexican accent, and I mean that as a compliment." In Mexican Spanish the letter "H" is always silent, and the guttural "ch" as "X" has almost disappeared in modern times, being only heard in remote regions and from certain professorial types. Ladino fascinates me, but it's hard to find modern speakers.
DeleteX for h and j is used by the Asturians in their very distinct dialect of Spanish. Perhaps of Asturian descent. Many immigrants from Spain came from Asturias. Centro Asturianos clubs could be found in NYC, Buenos Aires, Havanna, Mexico City, etc. The Asturias region is in the north of Spain on the Bay of Biscay/ Atlantic Ocean.....:)
DeleteAn "H" is also nominally silent in Ladino except where it replaces a jota - x or j - in Castilian. (This is so in most if not all Romance languages because the original aspirate "H" in Latin dropped away as the Classical pronunciation gave way to the Vulgate.) I did joint honours in French and Castilian. I learnt my ancestral Ladino from the mother of a friend of mine, born in Bulgaria, a former part of the Ottoman Empire, which took in many of the Sephardi Jews after the expulsion in 1492 and came to England as a refugee after the war. Ladino is somewhere between Portuguese and Castilian, but with a bit of patience and humour can be readily understood by Catalan and Leonese speakers as well. (In Catalan, the "X" renders the English "CH" as in "church".) The easiest of all, for me, was with the Portuguese dialect of the Azores, which is less elided than standard European Portuguese. I was told I looked remarkably young for someone speaking so old a language - but then, flattery will get you far!
DeleteHerr Behar, so gutaussehend und fit. Was mit seiner Haarfarbe, es andert sich wie ein Chamaeleon ! Blondische blondie auf einem foto und dunkelhaarig auf einem anderen Foto. Wie der schone Mike Sill ! War es ein Hollywood-Ding ?
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Hollywood for sure and possibly seasonal. The intense California summer sun naturally bleaches some hair colors.
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