Dear Gabacho from Long Beach: Gotta say that in my lifetime of living in Southern California, I’ve never heard nadie pronounce Junipero like you say people mispronounce it — the malapropism I hear is ...

The sounds you make when you read Spanish out loud can sometimes be different to the ones you would make in English. Perfume. Perfume. It’s spelled the same as in English. In Spanish you say all the ...

‘Gabriel’ in English isn’t the same as ‘Gabriel’ in Spanish, and ‘Ángel’ isn’t just ‘angel.’ With Spanish names, there’s often an English version spelled the same as (or very similar to) the Spanish ...

DEAR MEXICAN: In my hometown of Playa Larga (Long Beach, California), natives refer to a major avenida in our villa, Junipero Avenue (named for Father Junipero Serra, accused native genocider, a ...