The whole ahnchilada

It is rather interesting that Mary and her siblings say "ahnchilada" like my mom does, like Mary Lee must have, like I used to before I studied Spanish, and like I probably still do if I'm tired and unattentive. This almost certainly derives from the fact that our moms had a glancing familiarity with French when Mexican cuisine first came to America and just figured that Spanish and French had similar pronunciation, or that they just kind of mapped French sounds onto Spanish words because each were "foreign". Entirely innocently, trying to pronounce new words as best they could. My generation carries it forward.