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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
`` Sabinas '' was a Spanish word used to describe cattle of red and white peppered and splotched colorin'.
This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.
In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.
" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.
The word negro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for the color black.
Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).
In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.
( Ron is the Spanish word for rum ).
** The Italians and the Spanish also use the word " cifra " to refer to a number.
The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.
* In Italian musical terms used in English, it means " with " ( con means " with " in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin )
On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.
The name " coyote " is borrowed from Mexican Spanish coyote, ultimately derived from the Nahuatl word cóyotl.
By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.
In France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, the word " couscous " ( cuscús in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian ) usually refers to couscous together with the stew.
The word " chocolate " entered the English language from Spanish.
How the word came into Spanish is less certain, and there are multiple competing explanations.
Pointing to various sources dating from the time period of the Spanish conquest, they identify cacahuatl (" cacao water ") as the original Nahuatl word for the cold beverage consumed by the Aztecs.
Noting that using a word with caca in it to describe a thick, brown beverage would not have gone over well with most speakers of Spanish due to the fact that caca means faeces in Spanish, the Coes suggest that the Spanish colonisers combined the Nahuatl atl with the Yucatec Maya chocol, for unlike the Aztec, the Maya tended to drink chocolate heated.

Spanish and buscar
The word " busk " comes from the Spanish root word " buscar ", meaning " to seek " – buskers are literally seeking fame and fortune.

Spanish and turn
At the turn of the 19th century, immigrants from Naples and Genoa opened the first pizza bars, though Spanish residents subsequently owned most of the pizza businesses.
Almagro then dispatched Gómez de Alvarado along with 100 horsemen and 100 foot to continue the exploration, which ended in the confluence of the Ñuble and Itata rivers where the Battle of Reinohuelén between the Spanish and hostile Mapuche Indians forced them to turn back north.
The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.
In 1684 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Ratisbon that included provisions to suppress the actions of the Caribbean privateers, which effectively ended the era of the buccaneers on Tortuga, many being employed by the French Crown to hunt down any of their former comrades who preferred to turn outright pirate.
These efforts organized national resources sufficiently in the defense of England against the far larger and more powerful Spanish Empire, and in turn paved the foundation for establishing a global empire in the 19th century.
In 1558, already established as a painter, Anguissola went to Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, who in turn recommended her to the Spanish king, Philip II.
At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.
After the events of the Zemla Intifada in 1970, when Spanish police destroyed the organization and " disappeared " its founder, Muhammad Bassiri, anti-Spanish feeling or Sahrawi nationalism again took a militant turn.
The Indians, in turn, introduced the Spanish to the concept of true slow cooking with smoke.
It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar (" to turn "); however, this may be a folk etymology.
The Spanish raided the Bahamas, the Bahamians in turn commissioned privateers against Spain, even though England and Spain were at peace, and in 1684 the Spanish burned the settlements on New Providence and Eleuthera, after which they were largely abandoned.
In 1578, the Spanish took Sulu and in April attacked and captured Brunei itself, after demanding that the sultan cease proselytizing in the Philippines and, in turn, allow Christian missionaries to be active in his kingdom.
Morton is also notable for naming and popularizing the " Spanish tinge " ( habanera rhythm and tresillo ), and for penning such standards as " Wolverine Blues ", " Black Bottom Stomp ", and " I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say ", the latter a tribute to New Orleans personalities from the turn of the 19th century to 20th century.
Only after the tragedy do the Spanish authorities turn their attention to Lipari and repopulate the city with Sicilian, Calabrian and Spanish families.
Since its origins at the turn of the 12th century, Sassari has been ruled by the Giudicato of Torres, the Pisans, the Sassaresi themselves in alliance with Genoa, the Catalan-Aragonese and the Spanish, all of whom have contributed to Sassari's historical and artistic heritage.
Over the centuries, it was conquered in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks, England, the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands, and the United Provinces of Holland.
Simultaneously, French and English governors tended to turn a blind eye to the buccaneers ' depredations against the Spanish, even when unlicensed.
( Bertrand, in turn, took his title from the eponymous anarchist army during the Spanish Civil War ).
At about 10: 30 a. m., the Spanish ships in the weather column were seen to wear ship and turn to port.
The English name is adopted from the Spanish, originally alfalfez, which in turn is derived from the Arabic al-fisfisa " fresh fodder ".
Segovia's main musical aesthetic preferences were music of the early 20th century ( and turn of the century ) especially in the Spanish romantic-modern and nationalist style.
The term continues evolving as other languages adapt these words to form their own name for Spain — for example, Japanese スペイン語 ( Supein-go ), ' Spanish language ', and スペイン人 ( Supein-jin ), ' Spaniard ', derives from the Japanese word for Spain, スペイン ( Supein ), which, in turn, derives from English ' Spain '.
Halderman sold hundreds of lots to Charles Premont, who in turn, served as the real estate agent for the Mexican families as he was fluent in Spanish.

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