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Provincial Vocabulary of Honduras." [ 1 ] It contains mostly the words and expressions in “La botica del pueblo,” a book by Francisco Cruz Castro . In the 22nd edition of the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy , published in 2001, the Academia Hondureña de la Lengua contributed 1,950 words.
Because the term originates from a common English word, there are other pre-existing or unknowing uses of beaner.For example, beaner has been used to describe someone from Boston (Beantown, Boston baked beans, Boston Beaneaters); when accidentally smoking a marijuana seed (alternatively called a bean); [9] a nickname (the 2012 book In Beaner's Backyard); [10] in coffee shops (for the coffee ...
Bay Islands English is an English variety spoken on the Bay Islands Department (Guanaja, Roatán, Utila), Honduras. Ethnologue reported that there were 22,500 native speakers in 2001. [1] Mainlanders know this language as Caracol, which literally means "conch". Genealogically this variety descends from Cayman Islands English. [2]
Honduras, [a] officially the Republic of Honduras, [b] is a country in Central America.It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
Honduras still remains in a coup-like atmosphere with electoral frauds, increased deaths, a large migration of its people, activists being arrested and killed, and so on. [9] Honduras has one of the highest murder rates of activists and these people face a massive amount of danger each day. [10]
Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos).Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.The governor represents the executive branch in the region in addition to acting as intermediary between municipalities and various national authorities; resolves issues arising between municipalities; oversees the penitentiaries and prisons in ...
Biener is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Wilhelm Biener (1590–1651), chancellor of Tyrol; John Byner (John Biener, born 1938), American comedian
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [3] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.