There are a lot of borrowed words that I've learned over the past 7 years living here.
For example, at 7 or 8 in the evening, Chileans take tea, usually a cup of instant coffee, or that horrible stuff that they call tea, and a piece of bread called marraqueta or an hallulla, the latter pronounced ah-yew-yah (with more of the "ll" sound of million). This meal is called "once" -- or the same as the number 11 in spanish. Some have told me that it came from the fact that in the 19th century, the English who had a meal at midday called it "lunch", and the chileans believed it to be "el once" -- perhaps even because it occurred near 11 am. I have also heard that it could be because the English called it "elevens".
Another interesting thing I "discovered" was the term for peanuts is "mani" -- the final "i" accented, and pronounced man-EE. Think of the expression, working for peanuts... working for "mani" -- money?!

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Hello, InCiel...

Hallulla would have never brought bread, ah-yew-yah, or tea to this poor brain. Is it a decent-tasting bread?

So, you sit in a cyber cafe and work on the Internet? Are you close to Santiago?

We had a discussion on this board a few days back about a wind in Tunisia called the chili, but it wasn't pronounced anything like the country you now inhabit.

Let me be one of the first to welcome you, and, from what I've gathered in my days spent here, everybody works for mani.

Best regards,
DubDub

Dear EN.CL : At a site I cannot find again, I read about an interesting solution to supply drinking water to commnities somewhere in your part of South America. It consisted of capturing abundant dew on vegetation at fairly high elevations, and piping it to communities a long ways below, close to Pacific.
Have you ever seen such an installation?