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Spanish vs. English pronunciation. The Monterey peninsula has a ton of Spanish speakers. Spanish has exactly 5 vowel sounds: ah, eh, ee, oh, ooh.

So take the a sound from "papa" and add in o sound from "gross " and you get the right pronunciation.

Gross has two pronunciations.

Interesting, everyone I knew in Santa Cruz pronounced it app-tose when I lived there for a couple of years.

Eh. It’s not really much of a difference. At least it’s not called Queue or Quinoa

Hate English.

"Aptos" isn't English, it's a word in an indigenous language. To an ordinary English speaker it would appear to be Greek, hence why people unfamiliar with the name pronounce it as though it were a Greek word.

There are too many such words in English, and you need to memorize all this shit. Unlike any other major language.