1918, Julián Moreno-Lacalle,Elements of Spanish Pronunciation, page12:
Fundamentally, theSpanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].
“You should readSpanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.”
Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken:pasa (Epass, Fpasser),efekte,komun (Fcommun, Ecommon), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example ofSpanish, which writespasar,efecto,común, etc., and even extend it to cases in whichSpanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as withll andrr:bel Sbello, Fbelle,koresponda, Scorresponder, etc.
1995, Hanna Pishwa, Karl Maroldt, editors,The Development of Morphological Systematicity, page146:
In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French,Spanish, and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent.
2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, “How Outsiders Can Thrive in a World That Wants Them to Fit In”, inNext Big Idea Club[1]:
I call them otroverts—fromotro, theSpanish word for “other,” andvertere, Latin for “to turn.” Otroverts are people who turn in a different direction: not inward like introverts, not outward like extroverts, butelsewhere. They turn toward something else entirely—independence, clarity, and observation.
Jack Ar.[…] I must come back to father — and what then? — he won't give me theSpanish. Project. TheSpanish! — now what the devil's that? Jack Ar. Why, ready money, not credit or paper.
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