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Old August 20, 2009, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by brute View Post
Please excuse me for butting in!!
In Britain we have a different word for jewelry. It is jewellery!
You Brits have weird spellings!

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I like that!

On the risk of being offtopic a bit (kindly indulge me ):

The word 'tío' is quite frequently used for 'that guy' i.e. in popular way.
I don't think I have seen 'tía' used as frequently in this kind of context? Is there a good female equivalent for it?
I'm SO glad that you said that, because I was wondering why someone would talk about their uncle like that. Haha!! Is this a Spain-Spanish thing, or something that is used all over the Spanish-speaking world?
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