“Jack, I’m gonna give you a D minus if you promise you’ll never take Spanish again.” “I’ll take it.” A missionary to Mexico since 1967, relating his college Spanish class experience. He would later go on to graduate at the top of his class in Spanish language school.
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I don’t know how long people have been mishearing lyrics to songs; I guess as long as there have been songs. Of course ‘Excuse me while I kiss this guy,’ from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze is probably the most famous. For years a female I won’t mention thought that song in Austin Powers was Secret […]
Before you try pronouncing it with any kind of J sound, I’ll tell you: it’s pronounced MEE-ho, and in Mexican Spanish it’s a term of endearment for boys (mija, MEE-ha for girls). I learned the word from my brother. He heard it from one of his Army buddies, who told this story: “When I was […]