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This entry is part of a list of articles I wrote for a newsletter encouraging bilingual employees to embrace their knowledge of speaking Spanish. I found the articles while going through my old files, so I wanted to share them in this format.

In the U.S., a 14 year-old boy from Indiana won the National Spelling Bee. He correctly spelled the word AUTOCHTHONOUS. It means ‘native to a land’ or ‘indigenous,’ and in Spanish the word is ‘autóctono.’

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This entry is part of a list of articles I wrote for a newsletter encouraging bilingual employees to embrace their knowledge of speaking Spanish. I found the articles while going through my old files, so I wanted to share them in this format.

Does it seem to you that there are hardly any terms in Spanish for the Internet? To attempt an answer, we have to review a brief history of the Internet.

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