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By Gerald Erichsen, About.com Guide to Spanish Language since 1998

More words added to collection of Spanish loan words

Thursday March 4, 2004
English has dozens of words that it borrowed from Spanish. We've recently added five entries to our list of such words. See if you can guess what the English words are based on the Spanish originals and their meanings before they were assimilated into English: criollo (a person who is native to a particular area), Diego (the equivalent of James), charqui (dried meat), cayo (type of small island) and estibador (one who stows things). Learn how Spanish has enriched the English language...

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