Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

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.

Coyotaje ( the Mexican-Spanish word for coyote ) is a slang term for a person who smuggles illegal immigrants over the border from Mexico to the United States.

Slidell's arrival caused political turmoil in Mexico after word leaked out that he was there to purchase additional territory and not to offer compensation for the loss of Texas.

Mexico has claimed the exclusive international right to the word " tequila ".

Mexico has claimed the exclusive international right to the word " tequila ", threatening legal actions against manufacturers of distilled blue agave spirits in other countries, Tequila ’ can only be produced in Mexico.

The Real Academia Española defines the word enchilada, as used in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, as a rolled maize tortilla stuffed with meat and covered with a tomato and chile sauce.

The original Mexican term, chilli ( now chile in Mexico ) came from the Nahuatl word chilli or xilli, referring to a larger Capsicum variety cultivated at least since 3000 BC, as evidenced by remains found in pottery from Puebla and Oaxaca.

In Mexico the term chile is used for " hot peppers " while the heatless varieties are called pimiento ( the masculine form of the word for pepper, which is pimienta ).

The Western study of Nagualism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton who published " Nagualism: A Study in Native-American Folklore and History " which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and those who practiced nagualism in Mexico in 1894.

In Mesoamerica the Aztec civilization used the word " Chichimeca " to denominate a group of nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes that lived in the outskirts of the Triple Alliance's Empire, in the North of Modern Mexico, which were seen for the Aztec people as primitive and uncivilized.

The president of Mexico still holds the final word in some decisions ( e. g. he must approve some posts ), and the Congress of the Union reviews the budget of the Federal District and sets the limit to its debt.

Notwithstanding the above history of the name for town of Mankato-Dakota word for Blue Earth, according to Frederick Webb Hodge, in his " Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico ," Volume 1, page 801, the town was named after the older of the two like-named chiefs of the Mdewakanton division of the Santee Dakota, whose village stood on or near the site of the present town.

Iturbide sent word to congress in Mexico City on 13 February 1824 offering his services in the event of Spanish attack.

In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, the concept of the " mestizo " became central to the formation of a new independent identity that was neither wholly Spanish nor wholly indigenous and the word mestizo acquired its current double meaning of mixed cultural heritage and actual racial descent.

Sometimes, particularly outside of Mexico, the word " mestizo " is used with the meaning of Mexican persons with mixed Indigenous and European blood.

The word is also used for a small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing.

For this reason, this image is also called the Virgen Gachupina, as “ gachupina ” is a derogatory word for the Spanish used in Mexico.

The word ranchera was derived from the word rancho because the songs originated on the ranches and in the countryside of rural Mexico.

Rancheras that have been adapted by conjuntos, or norteño bands from northern Mexico and the southwestern US, are sometimes called norteños, from the Spanish word for northern.

In Guatemala, Mexico and other Latin American countries, the word used to describe this kind of vehicle is " Casa Rodante " ( Rolling House ).

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

There was no word spoken, no apparent signal given.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

* William S. Burroughs, novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer

Their music includes spoken word pieces and elements of punk, hip hop, rock, funk, jazz, and indigenous music, among others.

It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).

In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.

Ayahuasca is the Hispanicized spelling of a word in the Quechua languages, which are spoken in the Andean states of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

Today one difference between Bulgarian dialects in the country and literary spoken Bulgarian is the significant presence of Old Bulgarian words and even word forms in the latter.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

Bizz Buzz is a spoken word game where if a player slips up and speaks a word out of sequence, they are eliminated.

Lee taught " It is not to be thought that every word spoken by the General Authorities is inspired, or that they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost in everything they speak and write.

Its signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.

"), spoken word (" A Commercial ") and psychedelia (" Cesspools In Eden ").

Finally, even after accepting the various alterations admitted by Homer, some lines remain impossible to scan, e. g. Iliad I. 108 “ not a good word spoken nor brought to pass ”:

Pope Eugenius III did not, as Eleanor had hoped, grant an annulment ; instead, he attempted to reconcile Eleanor and Louis, confirming the legality of their marriage, and proclaiming that no word could be spoken against it, and that it might not be dissolved under any pretext.

I will never break the word of a prince spoken in public place, for my honour's sake.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

The word may derive from the word " jabber " (" to talk nonsense "), with the "- ish " suffix to signify a language ; alternatively, the term gibberish may derive from the eclectic mix of English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic spoken in the British territory of Gibraltar ( from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq ), which is unintelligible to non-natives.