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The Many Words Borrowing From Spanish
Nicholl: English loves to steal words from other languages and make them its own. Because of the things we've already mentioned, that has made us english and spanish very close friends. The many words borrowed from spanish can be divided into a handful of categories. Most of us recognize words for mexican food and drink, including choriso, taco, anchelata, chalupa, takila, marguerita, dackary and mamosa,. Also has many sp Spanish place names like arizona, meaning arid zone in spSpanish, colorado, meaning red, for the red mountains found there. And albuquerque, after a
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