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  2. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Same – DO (ditto) Sappers – RE (the Royal Engineers equivalent of "private") Satisfactory – S; Say – EG (e.g., short for the Latin exempli gratia) Seaman – AB (able seaman) Second – S or MO (moment) Secret service – SS; Secretary – PA (personal assistant) Section – OR (Other Ranks – a 'section' of the British Armed Forces ...

  3. Spanish nobility - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of a Spanish nobleman, The 5th Duke of Alburquerque, Grandee of Spain, at the height of the Spanish Empire, 1560 The Spanish nobility are people who possess a title of nobility confirmed by the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, as well as those individuals appointed to one of Spain's three highest orders of knighthood: the Order of the Golden ...

  4. Venezuelan Spanish - Wikipedia

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    A low-class person or behavior. See chimbo; Barrio = n. Poor neighborhood. Often built upwards on hillsides, they are a distinct and noticeable feature of the landscape in large cities in Venezuela. Barquilla = n. Ice cream cone. Becerro(a) = n. A goofy person. A moron (insult). Lit. Calf (animal). Example: "Sí eres becerro" = You're such a ...

  5. This US man failed Spanish in school. Now he’s running a ...

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    Prior to building the family home, he had rented various houses and apartments in Mallorca for 250-400 euros ($277-$444) a month. For his family of three, a meal at a restaurant costs around $60-70.

  6. Spanish nouns - Wikipedia

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    The remaining nouns in this class do not typically have distinct feminine forms, but the gender of the determiners or adjectives that agree with them still correspond to biological sex or gender. For instance, el artista refers to an artist who is male while la artista refers to an artist who is female. [5] These nouns are called common gender ...

  7. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    The language uses prepositions (rather than postpositions or inflection of nouns for case), and usually—though not always—places adjectives after nouns, as do most other Romance languages. Spanish is classified as a subject–verb–object language; however, as in most Romance languages, constituent order is highly variable and governed ...

  8. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Spanish was one of the official languages in the Philippines in Southeast Asia until 1973. In the 1987 constitution, Spanish was removed as an official language (replaced by English), and was listed as an optional/voluntary language along with Arabic. It is currently spoken by a minority and taught in the school curriculum.

  9. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is a language with a "T–V distinction" in the second person, meaning that there are different pronouns corresponding to "you" which express different degrees of formality. In most varieties, there are two degrees, namely "formal" and "familiar" (the latter is also called "informal").