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Guy Courchesne
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| until I learned Spanish, which embarases me. |
I hope it doesn't also make you pregnant. |
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GueroPaz
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Location: Thailand or Mexico
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No chance - I am past menopause. 
It is the words with double spellings that confuse me now. Mississippi is still easy, not having a Spanish cognate. But embarrass, possible, assiduous, accumulate - making accommodate and recommend suspect. |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Before Spanish crept into my brain, I was known as Super-Speller. Now I'm still better than most but sometimes have trouble with words with doubled consonants and with cognates that differ by only one letter like "virgen" and "virgin". To get it right in English, I think of the Spanish spelling (which you can easily figure out from the pronunciation) and then change the one letter that is different. |
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