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Spanish Words From English Names

April 12, 2024
You may know that “hanguear” comes from “hang out,” but do you know the English origins of Spanish words like “bistek,” “Firulais,” “guagua,” and “chomino”?
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Jenny. So there's a lot of words,
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in Spanish that come from like English words like jar
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means to hang loche for lunch.
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Zeal was che, che,
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che che for Czech Per Park.
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And even I thought was a word for the Long Me too
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And then my dad was like,
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oh, it's comuna.
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That one sounds more proper,
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you know, but I'm over here texting people and shit.
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But there are many words in Spanish that a lot of people
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don't know, come from English.
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Yep. There is,
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there really is.,
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there's a viste beef steak,
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beef, steak, beef,
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steak. Yeah, beef steak.
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There we go. Dogs are named FFF for free of lice
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Yes, that's what our parents would do.
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Like, like when they bring a dog back,
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the, I guess the people,
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when you cross the dog,
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they say, ok,
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the dog's free of lice.
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So I guess the they were like,
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oh free. Yeah.
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in Cuba they call women's underwear,
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mama. I've heard my grandma say this one.
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Bloomers blooming, blooming.
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She says blooming. Is it?
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Why?, a word that traces back to the,
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to the first, to the first woman's pants that were invented
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in the 18 hundreds.
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So I guess I don't.
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No bloomers. There we go.
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Yep. Also in Cuba they say Guagua,
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I use this one.
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I grew up saying Guagua.
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So isn't that what bad bunny?
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Also said in the Guagua gua and you can thank this word
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for comes from English from a company that actually brought buses
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out to Cuba and there was WWW A and yeah,
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I, I actually had to Google that those guys up.
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So they're like two brothers like the WW short for like Washington
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and I forgot the other one but it stuck around because I've
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been saying I say wah wah to this day.
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and also, and another one that called me with Camila
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was Daddy Yankee. Calls himself El Kri.
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Have you ever heard of him?
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But he calls himself Kang Kang Show for Kang Man,
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which comes from Congressman.
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What? That's crazy.
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That shit is crazy.
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This what threw me off people is nice is nice.
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Means well, yeah,
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people is nice but I've never heard that one.
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Yeah, I think it means more like maybe more.
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You're, you're from the Caribbean.
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I'm more from like Mexico but you gotta,
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you gotta tune me in.
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I'm out here now is nice.
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Is nice. Start dropping that now,
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man. I don't know what this is because I grew up
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with one of them bad boys.
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Definitely. The only got licenses to carry and this one
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is short for a watchman.
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Watch, man. Where's the watch,
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man? I need.
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This dude is creeping me out on the corner.
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What's the next one?
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Chomi? I'm not familiar with it.
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Are you? Yeah,
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I have to do my Google for this one.
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This one is a little,
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you know, a little one rated R chomi.
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I've been using it now though,
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after I learned what it was,
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you know, I had to,
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I had to, you know,
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start, I added it to the vocabulary.
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Is you Tomino or Mi Chomi.
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I think you're,
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you have a chomi.
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Oh, ok. Now I know what it is just like
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OK, let's move on.
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So what was it?
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The sailors coming? So it was about so Chomi,
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the work came from sailors that were apparently thirsty as hell with
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women right before they were getting leaving on,
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on boat rides and they would scream out,
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show me. Now,
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show me. Now,
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what do you think?
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They want them to show?
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What do you think?
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It's like the truckers when the truckers pick up the hookers and
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they turn on the little Lucecita,
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they want the cho,
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the cho cho. Damn history.
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So lots of lots of English words come from Spanish too
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So especially cowboy terms.
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from before the Mexican American War,
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the old western term for prison was whose goal it comes
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from the Spanish word,
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who's car, who's,
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who's car and ranch comes from the Rancho lasso from Lao Lao
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Buckaroo from Vaquero. Oh,
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I love that. And the 10 gallon hat from Tanga?
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Oh, ok. I feel like half the city's street names
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are like Spanish dude.
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Yeah. No, it is.
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Yeah. Los Angeles.
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San Die. Like it's just,
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and then street names.
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Oh, for sure.
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There's one I can't say it always breaks me.
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Liam. What's that street?
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Cowabunga? No CC what the fuck is going on there?
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But yeah, I mean the,
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there's just so many words even more the word savvy,
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the word savvy comes from Saber.
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So if you're savvy do s what,
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what do you think?
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Cockroach? I love it.
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Oh my God, this is great.
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And it's so funny because also I remember Alejo,
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sorry guys, I gotta talk about Alejo.
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Alejo told me his dad calls Venice Beach,
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Benny's Beach. Benny's beat.
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Oh Benny would have beat damn Ben's but any who let's move
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on.