Tag Archives: Spanish

The day before yesterday

Posted 10 days ago by John Gray

Nuestro mañana será más luminoso [sic] que nuestro ayer y nuestro hoy. Pero ¿quién pondría la mano en el fuego en cuanto a que nuestro pasado mañana no vaya a ser peor que nuestro anteayer? [Our tomorrow will be more …

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The Spanish word for left

Posted 34 days ago by John Gray

Basque loanwords abound in contemporary Spanish. They include caspa, dandruff, manteca, lard (origin of mantequilla, butter), pestaña, eyelash (and now ‘tab’ in the sense of internet browser), and páramo, moorland, alongside many other less evocative terms. But I was particularly …

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Same language, different markets

Posted 52 days ago by John Gray

To take just one example: in different forms of contemporary Spanish, a toilet can be indoro, taza de baño, retrete, wáter or poceta. A simple writing pen could be a bolígrafo, birome, lapicero, puntabola, esfero, pluma and lapiz-tinta. In Spain, …

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The history of dollar

Posted 61 days ago by John Gray

The word dollar has a curious and convoluted history. It is derived, as a word, from Thaler, which itself comes from the the Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia. In 1519, the silver from Joachimsthal was first used to mint the …

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Basque words in English

Posted 84 days ago by John Gray

Basque is a fascinating language. Despite speculations that it may, somehow, be related to language groups from Eastern Europe, it is essentially that rarest of linguistic phenomena, a language that emerged independently of its neighbours, and preserved its individuality throughout …

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