Comments on: Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you enjoy your pavo, guajolote, or chompipe!

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:58:19 +0000

I love it too! I’m part Mexican, my husband is Venezuelan and I lived in Spain for a few years.
You forgot the green beans Ejotes – Mex./vainitas – Ven./judías verdes – Esp.
Papas – Amer Lat/Patatas – Esp
Pumpkin pie: Pay de Calabaza/Auyama – Ven
~Buen provecho!

By: NOT Lost in Translation « SpanglishBaby

NOT Lost in Translation « SpanglishBaby — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:06:28 +0000

[...] of language. This is to say nothing of the variations of Spanish that Roxana wrote about in her thanksgiving post. We have Spanish-speaking familia from El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and the U.S.¡ [...]

By: Roxana S.

Roxana S. — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:55:40 +0000

That’s a great story, Beth! I’d never heard of a sweater being called an abrigo. To me an abrigo is a coat and a sweater is a chompa!!! Jajaj!!

I’m telling you, I absolutely love this topic

By: BethO

BethO — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:21:49 +0000

I’m glad to hear about someone else having confusion. I was trying to help out with the expenses of the kids’ back-to-school one year and made the mistake of relying on their parents to explain the uniform policy to me. I did think it was a little strange the school required the ABRIGO to be navy-blue (which to me is a coat for outside) but hey, it seems these days, schools get stranger all the time, so I dutifully hunted for a navy-blue winter coat and finally found it… only to discover I was supposed to have been looking for a navy-blue SWEATER. That’s when I figured out, when they’d told me the school prohibits a SUETER with a zipper, they must have been talking about SWEATSHIRT jackets, not sweaters… and my phone call to the school confirmed it. So actually, I could have bought those cute and practical zipper cardigan sweaters I’d seen on sale, but of course when I went back there weren’t any left… What a mess. Now I always clarify exactly what people mean by ABRIGO or SUETER!