Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany Chilean stuff
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
OP 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?!
<img src="http://en.cl/dave2a.jpg" alt="Don't go out in your underwear!">
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Chilean stuff EN.CL 11/10/01 11:34 PM Re: Chilean stuff Wordwind 11/11/01 12:02 AM Re: Chilean stuff wwh 11/11/01 03:03 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,504Members9,187 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo
9,187 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 549 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days)
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,666tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,924Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org