{"id":6821,"date":"2021-04-21T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2021-04-18T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:26:16","slug":"curiosities-of-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/en\/curiosities-of-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities of Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discover great curiosities of Spanish<\/h1>\n

UPGRADE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we are always: what if English this, what if French that, now what if a little German … But we have our language very forgotten and that, because it cannot be the truth.<\/p>\n

That is why today we have decided to\u00a0speak a little more of our language and tell you curiosities about Spanish,<\/strong>\u00a0because it never hurts;\u00a0that sometimes we get too smart with the knowledge of another language, while we do not continue to nurture the knowledge of our own (what a scolding I have given you, eh? the flu is raging, and there is lack of sleep).<\/p>\n

But hey, we are not going to get involved any more and let’s go on to discover what mysteries this commendable language hides from us, whoever speaks it (as Luis Piedrahita says).<\/p>\n

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  1. The only word that contains five r’s is:\u00a0\u00a0ferrocarrilero<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/li>\n
  2. The\u00a0Ecuadorian<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0aeronautical<\/strong>\u00a0words\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0have the same letters, but in a different order.\u00a0This is called an anagram.<\/li>\n
  3. One thousand<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0is the only number that has neither O nor E.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The\u00a0Spanish<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0official language \/ co –\u00a0existing in countries across 5 continents.\u00a0Which there is nothing! We can presume that on every continent, in at least one country, Spanish is spoken.\u00a0In Europe it is very easy to know which country is the flag.\u00a0But in Africa it is official in two countries, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea.\u00a0In the Asia area, we have the Philippines.\u00a0And if we move to Oceania, we can speak Spanish on Easter Island.<\/li>\n
  5. Our language\u00a0has approximately 300,000<\/strong>\u00a0different\u00a0words<\/strong>\u00a0or concepts.\u00a0Although in the RAE they only collect 88,000<\/li>\n
  6. A Spaniard uses an average of 300 words.\u00a0A cultured person increases the number of words, reaching 500 a day.\u00a0A journalist or writer can use 3,000.<\/li>\n
  7. Spanish takes the gold medal for the language faster to speak.\u00a0And they are measured according to the number of syllables that can be said in a second by an average speaker.<\/li>\n
  8. Miguel de Cervantes came to use around 8000 different words in his work (Don Quixote).<\/li>\n
  9. In the years 974-978 (the exact date is still debated), a monk from the Monastery of San Justo y\u00a0San Pastor in La Rozuela (Le\u00f3n), was the author of the first text written in Spanish<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0The curiosity of the text is that it was not the monastery scribe, who recounted the life of the monks, but made “a list of kitchen expenses”, to put it in some summarized way.\u00a0The text was called Nodicia de Kesos, and that is where it listed how the cheeses from that monastery had been spent.<\/li>\n
  10. The word cinco(five)<\/strong>\u00a0has five letters, a coincidence that is not recorded in any other number.<\/li>\n
  11. In\u00a0\u00a0aristocratic<\/strong>\u00a0, each letter appears twice.<\/li>\n
  12. The word\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>heard<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0has three syllables in three letters.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. In 1994, it was decided that the letters CH and LL were no longer welcome in our alphabet.\u00a0So they went down in history, although more than one of the times of the EGB (and our elders) still remember them when it comes to spelling.<\/li>\n
  14. The word\u00a0 recognize (reconocer)<\/strong>\u00a0 is read the same from left to right as vice versa.<\/li>\n
  15. The longest words without repeated letters are\u00a0\u00a0Calumbrientos (13), Centrifugados (13), and Vislumbr\u00e1ndote (14).<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. But instead the longest word collected by the RAE is\u00a0\u00a0Electroencephalographer,\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0this word contains 23 letters.<\/li>\n
  17. The only word that contains each of the five vowels twice is\u00a0\u00a0Equatorial Guinea<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/li>\n
  18. In the term\u00a0\u00a0centrifuged,<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0all the letters are different and none are repeated.<\/li>\n
  19. There are four words that have four consonants in a row:\u00a0transplant, subtract, abstract, abstract<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/li>\n
  20. The term\u00a0\u00a0I was<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0contains four consecutive letters in alphabetical order: stuv.<\/li>\n
  21. Some of the\u00a0strangest<\/strong>\u00a0words that Spanish contains are:\u00a0amover, barbi\u00e1n, jipiar, orate, vagido<\/strong>\u00a0… Does anyone know their meanings without asking San Google?<\/li>\n
  22. Almost more than 4000 words are inherited from the time of Arabic domination, that represents 8% of our current vocabulary.<\/li>\n
  23. The term “Noche Toledana” is still surprising what the story behind it is.\u00a0It goes back to the year 812, when a cruel young man who went by the name of\u00a0Jusuf-ben-Amru<\/strong>\u00a0ruled in Toledo\u00a0.\u00a0The riot of the town caused that this was beheaded, but his father,\u00a0Amru<\/strong>\u00a0, took revenge widely doing the same with\u00a0the heads of the nobles of the city<\/strong>\u00a0, who had been invited to a banquet by the warrior.\u00a0(I don’t know why, but Game of Thrones has come to mind …)<\/li>\n
  24. We have a word that we can pronounce, but not write. Funny, eh?\u00a0It is the singular of the imperative ‘come out’, which, if we wrote it (‘salle’), we would read [salle], and not [sal.le], due to the digraph ‘ll’.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There are many more curiosities, surely you know some more, and if you are so nice to share them with us in the comments of the post, we and the rest of the travelers will be very grateful to you.<\/p>\n

    We hope you liked the post, and we keep traveling to see what next topic we write about.<\/p>\n

    Finally, we give you access to\u00a0platform number 1\u00a0to complete your online language registration.<\/p>\n\n\n

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