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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
Hola has also been proposed to have come from Arabic. [4] However, the suggested derivations from Arabic of both olé and hola are disputed and they are described by the Spanish Arabist Federico Corriente as " falsos arabismos " (false Arabisms ) in his work Diccionario de arabismos y voces afines en iberorromance .
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 ...
Hola/Chau, a double-live album by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ¡Hola!, a weekly Spanish-language magazine; Hola (card game), a Polish and Ukrainian trick-taking game related to Sedma "Hola", a song by Miranda! from El Disco de Tu Corazón "Hola!", a song by Panda from La Revancha Del Príncipe Charro
Baldwin was often misidentified as either Mallorcan, Spanish, or Latina, encouraging positive press by Hispanic media such as the celebrity gossip magazine ¡Hola!. [68] Baldwin affirmed mistaken statements that she was "half-Spanish" while speaking at the UN, and spoke "as if she has a Spaniard's familiarity with that country's food culture ...
Ñ or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Olé is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance commonly used in bullfighting and flamenco dance. [2] In flamenco music and dance, shouts of "olé" often accompany the dancer during and at the end of the performance, and a singer in cante jondo may emphasize the word "olé" with melismatic turns.
Protestgraphics (2001-2004) was one of the first websites to respond to the 9/11, U.S. military action in Iraq and Central Asia, violence against Arab and Muslim Americans, and to the Bush administration's War on Terrorism. In addition to the online archive, 500 sets of posters were distributed free of charge to organizations and activists ...