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Monday, January 19, 2004

Word Watch:
Seen this weekend:-
Top: Leading, as in Un top artista
Un top: A supermodel
Un disco light: A disco for younger people
Charme: Charm. Possibly a spelling mistake.
Fashión: Fashionable, as in Este sitio es muy fashión - This is an in place.

Reading about the respective sizes of English and Spanish vocabularies today, I came across the statement that English is growing because of the number of technical words being added to it, whereas Spanish is growing because of the number of English words it is absorbing. Who would have thought it?

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