Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world. It comes from Latin and is spoken mainly in Spain and Latin America. Many immigrants also continue to speak it in other parts of the world.
But, as is often the case with other languages, not everything is as schematic as it may seem in a language class. There are idioms, words that are used colloquially with different meanings, and many peculiarities that have to do with culture that are sometimes visible only through comparison with another language.
But in addition, surely there are some details of the Spanish language that we no longer perceive because we learned to use words as tools to communicate, and we no longer dwell on them.
Did you already know these curiosities of the Spanish language?
1. “Recognize” is read the same in palindrome: from left to right, and vice versa.
2. In the word “centrifugados” all the letters are different and none is repeated.
3. In “aristocratic” each letter appears twice.
4. “Five” has five letters, which does not happen with any other number.
5. The words “ecuadorianos” and “aeronáuticos” have the same letters, but in a different order. In other words, they are anagrams.
6. The word “electroencephalographer” is the longest of all those approved by the RAE, with 23 letters.
7. “Menstrual” is the longest word with only two syllables.
8. “Thousand” is the only number that has neither “o” nor “e”.
9. The word oía has three syllables in three letters.
10. The RAE admits expressions such as: “almóndiga”, “setiembre” or “madalena”.
11. The origin of “hopefully” is the Arabic expression law sha’a Allah (“If God wanted”).
12. The letters “Ch” and “Ll” were eliminated by the RAE in 1994.
13. The only word that contains each of the five vowels twice is “guineoquatorial”.
14. “Ninth” is the only word with three syllables that can be removed from the middle one without losing meaning: “Ninth” = “Ninth.”
15. The longest words without repeated letters are: “Calumbrientos” (13), «Centrifuged»(13) and «Glimpsing you»(14).
Do you know other curiosities?