[Sca-cooks] Re: Spanish Word

[Terry Decker]

Many years ago, during a very boring party, I encountered abook entitled, 
"Callo."  The title appears to mean "Cant" in Spanish and the book was about 
different usages found in various Spanish-speaking countries.  For a boring 
book on idiomatic usage, it was absolutely fascinating.  And I have yet to 
find a copy of it again.

Bear

> Another snippet to add... In Argentina, "manteca" means "butter", not
> "lard".  When I studied there in the early 60s, we had to revise what we
> knew of several words, this  being one.  Many countries use different 
> words
> for the same item, but this was one of the more confusing ones.  We were
> all Spanish teachers, working to improve our Spanish.  We had to ask for
> "manteca" for our bread, not "mantequilla"!
>
> Alys Katharine, retired Spanish teacher  (M.A. from Middlebury)