Bottom of the class!Byline: Hilarie Stelfox , My Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. teacher has been giving us his words of wisdom on how to avoid embarrassment en espa-ol. Apparently, the word for years, a-os looks almost the same as the word for bottom - anos (no wiggly line). Only the tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. separates the two - and the way it is pronounced. So we must, he says, be very careful to say "Tiene once a-os" (he has 11 years) and not "Tiene once anos" (he has 11 bottoms). As if we would! |
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