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[41] /e/ is often raised in many words, but it is not raised in word-final position, as is common in some other dialects. [42] Unstressed vowels, especially /a/, are often reduced to a schwa. [10] /o/ often becomes /u/, especially at the ends of words, and including in the conjunction o 'or'. [43]
It is commonly thought that the reflexes of stressed short E and O of Latin were realised, after the loss of phonemic quantity, as the low-mid vowels /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ respectively in the Western Romance languages, contrasting with close-mid /e/ and /o/, which would have originated from the mergers between long E and short I and between long O and ...
Spanish: Islas Vírgenes: Named by Christopher Columbus for Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. [122] [121] The name "Virgin Islands of the United States" (U.S. Virgin Islands) was adopted in 1917 when the islands were purchased by the U.S. from Denmark. [123] [note 4] United States Minor Outlying Islands: Various: Various: Various
from Spanish, a type of spicy chilli named after Jalapa de Enríquez, a town in Mexico, and the capital of the state of Veracruz jerky via Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki, "dried flesh" junta from Spanish junta literally "joint"; a board of joint administration; sometimes used to refer to military officers command in a coup d'état. As an ...
High Sierra Trail, in California, United States; Llano Estacado, Southwestern United States, between the East of New Mexico and Northern Texas ("Staked Plain") Los Angeles Basin, coastal sediment-filled plain located at the north end of the Peninsular Ranges province; Marquez crater, an impact crater in the US state of Texas
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Project 2025 not only called for the end of the department, it called for the elimination of Head Start and Title I. Head Start was created in 1965 as Part of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and ...
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.