Spelling Words in Spanish
Monday, November 9th, 2009This 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.’